| From: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Brandon Aiken <BAiken(at)winemantech(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql) |
| Date: | 2007-02-23 05:13:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20070223001354.406db4cd.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> > Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> > > On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
> > >> That depends greatly on what you're doing with it. Generally, as soon
> > >> as you start throwing a multi-user workload at it, MySQL stops
> > >> scaling. http://tweakers.net recently did a study on that.
> > > I think I recall that wikipedia uses MySQL ... they get quite a few
> > > hits, too, I believe.
> >
> > And outages if you watch :)
>
> Does this mean that we believe the Wikipedia would not suffer any
> outages if it ran on Postgres?
>
> How is the Postgres port of the Wikipedia doing this days anyway? Is it
> in a shape where one would consider it "competitive"?
I installed wikipgdia for the WPLUG wiki:
http://wplug.ece.cmu.edu/wiki/
We haven't had a lick of trouble with it since it went up. I don't
believe it's experienced any downtime in many months.
--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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