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The linked article is a good dive into the internals of Postgres vs MySQL. However, Uber didn't really switch from Postgres to MySQL, they switched from Postgr
by luhn 7y ago
The linked article is a good dive into the internals of Postgres vs MySQL.
However, Uber didn't really switch from Postgres to MySQL, they switched from Postgres to their home rolled document database which uses MySQL as the storage layer. [1]
[1] https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/ https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/
- zten 7y agoMarkus Winand's write-up at https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choice-of-databases https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choi... really drives this point home. InnoDB has favorable characteristics for what they're trying to do.