Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 2 Mar 2010, at 17:07, walt wrote:

> On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote:
>> On 3/2/10, walt<w41ter@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> This article was a big surprise to me.  Am I the last one to hear  
>>> about this
>>> stuff?
>>>
>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>>
>> If you're expecting a discussion then perhaps you'd care to narrow it
>> down a bit: which part of the article are we expected to feel
>> surprised about?
>
> I was surprised that three major social networking sites have dumped
> MySQL (but now the article says only two sites).  I've also not heard
> of the "NoSQL" movement before, and I'm curious to know what's  
> motivating
> it.  Maybe nobody trusts Oracle?

I read the other day that Facebook have NOT dropped MySQL - they  
remain committed to it - but that they use NoSQL technologies for some  
of their queries as it is more scalable. This seems to concur with an  
update to the article, which not everyone may have seen.

Unless they are using closed-source modules to MySQL (do these exist?)  
the Oracle situation probably would not worry such large companies are  
Facebook & Twatter. They are big enough to support OSS MySQL on their  
own.

Stroller.