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Instagram did just fine with postgresql with 27 million users. Many logical shards spread over a smaller amount of physical ones. http://www.databasesoup.com/2
by joevandyk 14y ago
Instagram did just fine with postgresql with 27 million users. Many logical shards spread over a smaller amount of physical ones.
http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/04/sharding-postgres-with-instagram.html http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/04/sharding-postgres-with-i...
- gouranga 14y agoInstagram isn't very complicated to be honest so I doubt that's a good scalability example.
- joevandyk 14y agoSkype's plan to support 1 billion users w/ postgres a few years ago? http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-billion-users http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-bi... and http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/small-overview-of-skype-database-tools http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/small-overview-of-skype-... Billions of records, 10,000 transactions per second. This was a couple of years ago. Dunno if Skype is complicated enough for you.
- erichocean 14y agoI get the sense he'll ratchet up what "complicated" means until he wins the argument. :)
- gouranga 14y agoNo just there is a difference between large and complicated.