Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 30 Jul 2016 06:38:01 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On 29/07/2016 22:58, Mick wrote:
> >> Interesting article explaining why Uber are moving away from PostgreSQL.
> >> I am
> >> running both DBs on different desktop PCs for akonadi and I'm also
> >> running
> >> MySQL on a number of websites.  Let's which one goes sideways first.  :p
> >> 
> >>  https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
> > 
> > I don't think your akonadi and some web sites compares in any way to Uber
> > and what they do.
> > 
> > FWIW, my Dev colleagues support and entire large corporate ISP's
> > operational and customer data on PostgreSQL-9.3. With clustering. With no
> > db-related issues :-)
> 
> Agree, you'd need to be fairly large-scale to have their issues, but I
> think the article was something anybody interested in databases should
> read.  If nothing else it is a really easy to follow explanation of
> the underlying architectures.
> 
> I'll probably post this to my LUG mailing list.  I think one of the
> Postgres devs lurks there so I'm curious to his impressions.
> 
> I was a bit surprised to hear about the data corruption bug.  I've
> always considered Postgres to have a better reputation for data
> integrity.  

Yes, same here, I would be interested to hear what the Postgres dev says, 
should he respond to it.

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Regards,
Mick

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