Unfortunately, there are many facets of this discussion that stumble accross each other.
1) Stonebraker is an industry troll that likes to shamelessly advertise his current products while pointing 'problems' with the state of the art. And he usually emits clueless opinions about subjects he doesn't deal with.
2) In spite of Stonebraker, voltdb engineers are doing a serious job, and the product has its value;
3) It's virtually impossible (and high risky) to change the infrastructure of any company the size of Facebook/Google. As any software engineer research shows, it'll take years and lots of money to change a large code base and deploy other data management system. Of course, Facebook is using HBase now for new products, but the current MySQL based systems should account for millions of lines of code. It's worth to spend time developing new products or refactoring old code that is working?
4) Thousands of MySQL shards is a hell on earth, for sure. We should praise Facebook engineers for being able to manage it efficiently.
1) Stonebraker is an industry troll that likes to shamelessly advertise his current products while pointing 'problems' with the state of the art. And he usually emits clueless opinions about subjects he doesn't deal with.
2) In spite of Stonebraker, voltdb engineers are doing a serious job, and the product has its value;
3) It's virtually impossible (and high risky) to change the infrastructure of any company the size of Facebook/Google. As any software engineer research shows, it'll take years and lots of money to change a large code base and deploy other data management system. Of course, Facebook is using HBase now for new products, but the current MySQL based systems should account for millions of lines of code. It's worth to spend time developing new products or refactoring old code that is working?
4) Thousands of MySQL shards is a hell on earth, for sure. We should praise Facebook engineers for being able to manage it efficiently.