[AccessD] Fun and games in web design

Actually, my understanding is that FB uses Hbase for their chat and messaging subsystem. Everything else uses MySQL, but it's possible they will or have been migrating more stuff over. For the most part, they still rely on MySQL heavily with lots of caching.

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Hans-Christian Andersen


On 21 Jul 2012, at 10:04, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> MySQL...they are mad. (They are actually using HiveDB in combination with
> MySQL or they would never be able to keep the thing together otherwise.)
> 
> I assumed because Facebook had donated so much time and money into the
> ongoing development of Hadoop, they would be associated with it. Apparently,
> they are not looking at how to improve their system but looking for a
> life-boat.
> 
> It will be interesting to see which way Facebook finally migrates as we know
> they must.
> 
> The author sighted NewSQL as the next logical step but all are in their
> infancy...many are cloud based and the products he quoted were not OSS,
> which means no Start-up company, the next big thing, will ever be able to
> afford to use them. In the OSS world VoltDB, H-Store, HyperSQL, Drizzle
> (refactored MySQL) and of course the new version one Postgres-X
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
> Shamil
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 2:58 AM
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> 
> Hi Jim --
> 
> Have a look:
> 
> "Facebook trapped in MySQL 'fate worse than death'"
> http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/
> 
> "What database does Facebook
> use?"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3479720/what-database-does-facebook-
> use
> 
> 
> Just facts, no criticism - anyway - Facebook is a great social web site, and
> as Arthur I do envy the engineers who are keeping such an immense set of SQL
> and NoSQL databases and media files up & running so smoothly...
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:51:04 -0700 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
> 
> 
> 
> Facebook and Google use NoSQL or RM
> 
> Both Oracle and MS are heavily into supporting various NoSQL development
> projects. Most big systems are not just MS SQL or Oracle but hybrids.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 6:17 PM
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> 
> AFAIK, both Amazon and EBay use Oracle.
> 
> -- 
> Stuart
> 
> On 20 Jul 2012 at 16:24, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> 
>> One word described those databases: NoSQL
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 3:59 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Fun and games in web design
>> 
>> JC,
>> I assume that you use (or have used) Google, Amazon, and eBay. In what
>> sense are they not "real" databases? Certainly not in any sense that I use
>> the word. I envy their response times, which are faster than anything I've
>> ever written against any back end, containing at best about a millionth of
>> their data volume.
>> 
>> Arthur
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