Re: Why facebook used mysql ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: Why facebook used mysql ?
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Msg-id 4CE0193C.5030507@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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In response to Re: Why facebook used mysql ?  (Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>)
Responses Re: Why facebook used mysql ?  (r t <pgsql@xzilla.net>)
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Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> What's more important to such companies is the ability to scale over
> multiple machines.

That question - how much work it is to administer thousands of database
servers - seems to have been largely missing from this conversation.

Apparently back in 2008, Facebook had 1800 MySQL servers with 2 DBAs.[1]

I wonder how that compares with large-scale Postgres deployments.

  Ron

[1] http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/04/22/1800MySQLServersWithTwoDBAs.aspx


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