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Who's still using MySQL on the back end? Most Linux distributions come with MariaDB. Is it Windows servers?

• zinodaur 10mo ago
  MySQL performs well at large scale, and has a very cool and weird storage engine option called MyRocks, that slows read performance but allows demented write rates and compression. But yes, it is very bad.
• homebrewer 10mo ago
  I'm pretty sure Facebook is still running it. They've done a migration to 8.0 a couple of years after it came out (it was a massive release). https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/core-infra/mysql https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/core-infra/mysql
• frje1400 10mo ago
  Obviously lots and lots of companies. Do you think a mature company just migrates to a different database unless it is absolutely necessary? That's a multi year project. I'm at a smaller company (around a 100 devs) and we have easily a dozen different production instances, some small and some larger with many replicas, etc. New projects get MySQL too because we know it and it works.
  • wink 10mo ago
    > Do you think a mature company just migrates to a different database You are right if you look at the current state of how MariaDB and MySQL diverged. But if you migrated right at the time of the split or close to, they were not different in a meaningful way. > unless it is absolutely necessary Staying free of Oracle is often deemed absolutely necessary.