If Facebook are so happy with MySQL, why did they develop Cassandra?
Derek Harris puts the larger point about Facebook's trouble with MySQL: "By and large, [MySQL] does [for Facebook] what it’s designed to do, which is to keep up with the myriad status updates and other data that populate users’ profiles. Rather, [the problem is] that Facebook had to expend so much money and so many man-hours to get there."
Derek Harris puts the larger point about Facebook's trouble with MySQL: "By and large, [MySQL] does [for Facebook] what it’s designed to do, which is to keep up with the myriad status updates and other data that populate users’ profiles. Rather, [the problem is] that Facebook had to expend so much money and so many man-hours to get there."
http://gigaom.com/cloud/is-stonebraker-right-why-sql-isnt-th...