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The largest website on the Internet uses MySQL...
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captaincrunch
on Nov 7, 2011
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Why can't you?
benologist
on Nov 7, 2011
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You mean Google or Facebook? In both cases didn't they extensively modify it, and still only use it for certain parts of their offerings?
scottshea
on Nov 7, 2011
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And in the case of Facebook it is strangling them... roughly 2/3 of their 9000+ MySQL servers do nothing but control the servers that actually store data.
lucisferre
on Nov 7, 2011
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