Re: Is PostgreSQL an easy choice for a large CMS?

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Tony Lausin wrote:
> >[ rotfl... ] MySQL will fall over under any heavy concurrent-write
> >scenario. It's conceivable that PG won't do what you need either,
> >but if not I'm afraid you're going to be forced into Oracle or one
> >of the other serious-money DBs.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> That's a scary idea - being forced into Oracle or Sybase. Isn't
> Slashdot.org still running strongly off of MySQL?

/. is also essentially read-only, or fairly close to it. The only sites
I'm aware of that have gotten MySQL to scale in a more write-heavy
environment are only able to do so by hand-crafting a clustering
solution of some kind, so that not everything is in the same server.
Livejournal is an example of this.

Why would a CMS have that high an update rate anyway? I'd think it would
only be somewhere between 10% and 25% DML...
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