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I can neither confirm nor deny that S3’s global bucket database is actually just MySql (with a lil bit of special sauce)

• sgt101 3y ago
  tbh my general response to all data questions is "use postgres". It does happen that someone comes back with a good reason why that would be a bad idea, but it's not frequent! mySQL == Oracle now... so bad on theological grounds.
  • astrange 3y ago
    You can use MariaDB.
• nonrandomstring 3y ago
  And why ever not? It's a perfectly good solution, no? What the GP alludes to is interesting though - mythologising of organisations, brands and names. Spend enough time with "famous" people, "big names", centres of power and prominence and you quickly see everyone is just ordinary dudes doing ordinary things with ordinary gear. But for some reason there's fuck loads of money and attention, and sometimes cloying paranoia and adulation floating around. Sure, right out on the periphery are a noble few who play with particle accelerators, spaceships and bunker supercomputers. But then, that's just a day job too. True genius/exceptionalism is rare and found in the unexpected places. The rest is conjured out of thin air by marketing and PR people, the press, and commentators. They are the ones who need the big legend.
• influx 3y ago
  Yeah, but I bet you the S3 Keymap isn't MySQL....