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Can you cite evidence, other than anecdotal, that Google "uses a ton of SQL databases"?
by smharris65 15y ago
Can you cite evidence, other than anecdotal, that Google "uses a ton of SQL databases"?
- div 15y agoGoogle has contributed quite a few large patches to MySQL. I doubt they would be spending engineering time on improving MySQL if they did not use it internally for at least _some_ projects, and probably many. Do a Google search for mysql google contributions and plenty of stuff pops up.
- acdha 15y agodiv's comment summed it up: one of the most useful MySQL patch sets floating around was released by Google to help address scalability (http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/ http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/) and this appears to have continued until the present: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-mysql-tools/Bc7P5SIRCVE/ZfWMqCOxlDQJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-mysql-tools/Bc7P5SIRC... I also know that they use at least one big financial reporting packages but I'm not sure whether the use of Oracle Hyperion is evidence for or against wisdom.
- acdha 15y agoThis probably counts as an argument for both sides: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37200.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37200.html