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Things like MySQL and PHP have bad reputation nowadays but Facebook shows impressive use cases and improves the technology more and more.
by denma 11y ago
Things like MySQL and PHP have bad reputation nowadays but Facebook shows impressive use cases and improves the technology more and more.
- nemothekid 11y agoWhile tools like MySQL and PHP aren't as bad as the community makes them out to be - Facebook is a terrible example how "impressive" these tools can be considering that Facebook almost entirely rewrote both of those tools (https://github.com/webscalesql/webscalesql-5.6 https://github.com/webscalesql/webscalesql-5.6, https://github.com/facebook/hhvm https://github.com/facebook/hhvm)
- istvan__ 11y agoYou can do many things with PHP and MySQL but the real question: is it worth it? I would be interested comparing the TCO (including development time) with platforms like this. I think MySQL is lagging behind Postgres nowadays so I would much rather use that even for storing JSON, even though I do not think that storing JSON in an SQL engine is a particularly good idea, it might work. Our #1 complain against MySQL + JSON was the insert and update time that was significantly higher than the normal insert/update for obvious reasons. If the workload is not update heavy this approach might even work. :)