| From: | Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com> |
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| To: | Allan Kamau <kamauallan(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why facebook used mysql ? |
| Date: | 2010-11-09 15:26:23 |
| Message-ID: | 299E3420-977F-41FD-8995-785BF1205EB7@killerbytes.com |
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On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Allan Kamau wrote:
> have come up with a few
> (possibly wrong) theories.
They all sound reasonable. I think you missed an important one though: aggressive (and even sometimes outright false) promotion and sales by the company MySQL AB.
Why I started looking at databases, you didn't have to look very hard to find PostgreSQL, but you did have to at least make a minimal effort.
Also, my understanding is that if you go way back on the PostgreSQL timeline to versions 6 and earliest 7.x, it was a little shaky. (I started with 7.3 or 7.4, and it has been rock solid.)
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