Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? 245
littlekorea writes "The world's largest web-scale users of MySQL have committed to one further upgrade to the Oracle-controlled database — but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options from MariaDB and cheaper options from the NoSQL community. Who will pay for MySQL enterprise licenses into the future?"
Re: and so meanwhile... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe Postgres lacks discoverability?
Re:How do you get cheaper than free? (Score:4, Funny)
"One does not simply export Facebook!"
Reverential integrity? (Score:4, Funny)
One entire Billy Graham at a time?
what about slashdot? (Score:3, Funny)
Re: and so meanwhile... (Score:5, Funny)
BetaMax vs VHS. Blu-ray vs HD-DVD.
Obviously it's because the porn industry chose MySQL.
They should switch to Mongo DB (Score:4, Funny)
Its web scale!
Re:and so meanwhile... (Score:5, Funny)
PostgreSQL's biggest disadvantage over MariaDB is that it's not a drop-in replacement for MySQL.
Postgres has a blackhole engine [bitbucket.org] that loses data in unpredictable ways now. But that only emulates parts of MyISAM.
I switched to MariaDB (Score:4, Funny)
The other question is how many obscure features of MySQL features are they using? (Including custom code)
Re: 'looking at' NoSQL? (Score:3, Funny)
Facebook uses a NoSQL database (HBase) for their messaging system, and some related tech for data analysis (Hadoop). They also have custom photo serving software (haystack) for their photo storage. The main data (status updates, friends, likes, etc.) is in MySQL with memcache in front of it. There is also a cache layer (varnish) in front of the web servers. They said NoSQL isn't ready and point to the smaller messaging system needing more staff.