Google, Facebook, Twitter if you want and others are pioneers of this era, I think they have also money to invest in research, in fact they hire the very talented people. I think it is part of the game trial&error, and honestly I dont see many alternatives to MySQL, especially when they started. There'll be only one!
Cheers Claudio 2011/7/11 Daevid Vincent <dae...@daevid.com> > > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1256241/Facebook-Trapped-In-My > SQL-a-Fate-Worse-Than-Death > > "According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a > huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to 'a fate worse than death,' > and the only way out is 'bite the bullet and rewrite everything > <http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/> > .' Not that it's necessarily Facebook's fault, though. Stonebraker says the > social network's predicament is all too common among web startups that > start > small and grow to epic proportions." > -- Claudio
