On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 14:32, Tony Lausin wrote: > > [ rotfl... ] MySQL will fall over under any heavy concurrent-write > > scenario. It's conceivable that PG won't do what you need either, > > but if not I'm afraid you're going to be forced into Oracle or one > > of the other serious-money DBs. > > > > regards, tom lane > > Hi Tom, > > That's a scary idea - being forced into Oracle or Sybase. Isn't > Slashdot.org still running strongly off of MySQL? Depends on how you define strongly. Slashdot has a LOT of code in place to cache the content so it never has to hit the database directly. Basically, every X seconds, the data creating the site is ripped outta the database and produced as static content so that the writes and reads don't clobber each other. And it still takes a pretty big and fast machine to handle the load.
