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Very few financial systems are ACID. Why do people still think banks run on bloody MySQL?
by remon 13y ago
Very few financial systems are ACID. Why do people still think banks run on bloody MySQL?
- lotsofcows 13y agoI love a non-sequitur as much as the next giraffe, but what does banks using MySQL have to do with banks choosing not to go ACID?
- remon 13y agoNothing at all other than the ever surfacing assumption by a lot of people that financial traffic is done on ACID like principles (rather than eventual consistency which it actually is). MySQL was a random example as should have been somewhat obvious.
- lotsofcows 13y agoMySQL is a random example of financial traffic not following ACID principles? I still don't understand. Is this a reference to MySQL, pre-InnoDB, not being ACID compliant? InnoDB's been around for a decade and has been the default database engine for years.