Thursday, May 24, 2012

Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ (Derrick Harris/GigaOM)

Posted by SecureTech

July 7, 2011

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘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.”