Re: Why facebook used mysql ?

Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> What's more important to such companies is the ability to scale over
> multiple machines.

That question - how much work it is to administer thousands of database
servers - seems to have been largely missing from this conversation.

Apparently back in 2008, Facebook had 1800 MySQL servers with 2 DBAs.[1]

I wonder how that compares with large-scale Postgres deployments.

  Ron

[1] http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/04/22/1800MySQLServersWithTwoDBAs.aspx