Re: [GENERAL] Interesting article, Facebook woes using MySQL

2012-03-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:22:18AM +0100, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi all > > 2011/7/12 Chris Travers : > > I am not convinced that VoltDB is a magic bullet either.  I don't > > I have the chance to help preparing an interview with Mike > Stonebreaker to be published at www.odbms.org > I'd really l

Re: [GENERAL] Interesting article, Facebook woes using MySQL

2012-03-12 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi all 2011/7/12 Chris Travers : > I am not convinced that VoltDB is a magic bullet either.  I don't I have the chance to help preparing an interview with Mike Stonebreaker to be published at www.odbms.org I'd really like to know, if he is up-to-date how Postgres performs these days and how he th

Re: [GENERAL] Interesting article, Facebook woes using MySQL

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ > > > > How would PG stack up in a usage situation like this? My sense is that Pg would stack up no better. I suspect to make this work at this scale you'd have to

Re: [GENERAL] Interesting article, Facebook woes using MySQL

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:53:20PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > example, it's not clear why 1,800 servers running mysql is necessarily > a 'fate worse than death'. Speaking personally, I find even one server running mysql (if it's my responsibility) is pretty enervating. I can imagine 1,800 co

Re: [GENERAL] Interesting article, Facebook woes using MySQL

2011-07-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ Well, Stonebraker is pitching (for the Nth time) a "revolutionary" platform, VoltDB, which naturally brings up concerns about bias. For example, it's not clear why 1,8

Re: [GENERAL] Interesting article, Facebook woes using MySQL

2011-07-11 Thread Tomas Vondra
Dne 11.7.2011 21:50, Gauthier, Dave napsal(a): > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ > > How would PG stack up in a usage situation like this? This article (and the slashdot discussion) was already mentioned in the pg-advocacy list http://archives.postgresq