On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote: > I based this criticism partially on evidence from a friend who > maintained LastFM's HA DB servers, and they used ubuntu for this task, > and they had many problems with this :/
There's a whole world of difference between "a database server" and the high-availability DB servers operated by a top rank website with millions of customers * millions of records * massive update rate * multiple application layers * multiple caching layers * who knows what For a start, I doubt they're using MySQL, which many people consider to be "a database". Does that mean that MySQL should not be used "for databases"? So if you have a specific example where "X should not be used for Y under conditions Z" please don't make blanket statements missing out "Z" and implying that "X should not be used for Y under any & all circumstances". :-) -jim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
