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 trialerror, 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
