From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmnm6-00039F-MZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:34:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48D7AE0EA0; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:33:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061C0E0EA0 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:33:31 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,573,1262563200"; d="scan'208";a="178621033" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 03 Mar 2010 12:33:31 +0000 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC4834080 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:33:28 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:33:28 +0000 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 7be53a2a-e8f0-4f81-8101-e937f8bc5511 X-Archives-Hash: 6e843699dc4a3fb32b8182110505f332 On 2 Mar 2010, at 17:07, walt wrote: > On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: >> On 3/2/10, walt 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&subj=news&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.