Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
engineering.fb.com
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
1–10 of 336 posts
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#2Seems like good, old-fashioned engineering work to me. No breathless evangelism or careerist claptrap in sight.
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#3It's interesting to see FB migrating so much over to Oracle.
2 weeks ago was FB use of GraalVM (from Oracle). And now this.
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#4My old-man brain still can't compute this statement: "MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle". I know this is now factually true, but late-90s me keeps looking over my shoulder and freaking out.
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#5can it do DDL commands in a transaction yet?
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#6MySQL 5.6 was released on 5 February 2013.
MySQL 8.0 was released on 19 April 2018.
>The 8.0 migration has taken a few years so far. We have converted many of our InnoDB replica sets to running entirely on 8.0.
At the scale of Facebook I wonder if they are the largest MySQL user on the planet.
And I take this opportunity to ask, does anyone know how does the MySQL roadmap works? What sort of features are coming or when is 9.0 expected to arrive.
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#7It's interesting to see FB migrating so much over to Oracle. 2 weeks ago was FB use of GraalVM (from Oracle). And now this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782475
Oracle has a very complete and much cheaper cloud solution relative to AWS. I've begun migrating my own projects over to their cloud. The savings on egress costs alone pays dividends.
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#8Anyone else notice that bad scaling and jumping on the animation? If they're going for an old informational film aesthetic, awesome!
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#9can it do DDL commands in a transaction yet?
Nope. In terms of broad usage I think only Postgres supports it.
Re: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
#10It's interesting to see FB migrating so much over to Oracle. 2 weeks ago was FB use of GraalVM (from Oracle). And now this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782475
Oracle has a very complete and much cheaper cloud solution relative to AWS. I've begun migrating my own projects over to their cloud. The savings on egress costs alone pays dividends.
That has nothing to do with MySQL. Facebook operates their own DCs and hasn't indicated any interest migrating elsewhere.