Re: Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than dea t

2011-07-09 Thread Maureen
Facebook's data structure would be a breeze to rewrite in any database format. Simple stuff. Posts in a few different flavors, Walls in a few different styles, and membership tracking. If their presentation layer is isolated from the data layer, the whole project would be piece of cake. On Fri

Re: Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than dea t

2011-07-08 Thread Sam
So I go to read more and that's the end of the article. Now I have to search to find out the what and how. . On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > > Read more here: > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ > ~

Re: Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than dea t

2011-07-08 Thread Cameron Childress
That is very a interesting read. Very. -Cameron On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ > > Excerpts: > > According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a > huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent