On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ Well, Stonebraker is pitching (for the Nth time) a "revolutionary" platform, VoltDB, which naturally brings up concerns about bias. For example, it's not clear why 1,800 servers running mysql is necessarily a 'fate worse than death'. Reading the article I find myself asking, 'what is the problem that needs solving here?'. I bet postgres would do just fine for facebook although it would take a lot of tweaking to get maximal numbers. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
