Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death'

wasimkadak writes with this excerpt from GigaOM: "According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to 'a fate worse than death,' and the only way out is 'bite the bullet and rewrite everything.' Not that it's necessarily Facebook's fault, though. Stonebraker says the social network's predicament is all too common among web startups that start small and grow to epic proportions."

Re:Oracle vs Facebook?

[davester666]

Maybe Facebook should just put all our data in the cloud...it's not like security or privacy is a big concern for Facebook...