Daevid Vincent wrote: > 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."
Fortunately those "web startups that start small and grow to epic proportions" are quite limited in numbers :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
