Re: Why facebook used mysql ?

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: Sandeep Srinivasa <sss(at)clearsenses(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why facebook used mysql ?
Date: 2010-11-14 17:15:40
Message-ID: 4CE0193C.5030507@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> What's more important to such companies is the ability to scale over
> multiple machines.

That question - how much work it is to administer thousands of database
servers - seems to have been largely missing from this conversation.

Apparently back in 2008, Facebook had 1800 MySQL servers with 2 DBAs.[1]

I wonder how that compares with large-scale Postgres deployments.

Ron

[1] http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/04/22/1800MySQLServersWithTwoDBAs.aspx

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