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Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by evanelias »

miohtama wrote: post #15
mathnode wrote: post #12

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Maybe you have misconception about the scalability of PostgreSQL. > According to Instagram representatives, the number of platform users exceeded 2 billion last year. This is quarter of all humanity. This mass of people publishes nearly 50 million photos a day. Football star Cristiano Ronaldo has over 600 million followers; singer Ariana Grande has over 380 million. Talk about huge databases! > Instagram uses many RD…

Is Instagram even still using Postgres? They've been awfully quiet about database usage for many years now.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by evanelias »

mathnode wrote: post #20
miohtama wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you have misconception about the scalability of PostgreSQL. > According to Instagram representatives, the number of platform users exceeded 2 billion last year. This is quarter of all humanity. This mass of people publishes nearly 50 million photos a day. Football star Cristiano Ronaldo has over 600 million followers; singer Ariana Grande has over 380 million. Talk about huge databases! > Instagram uses many RD…

"popular with developers" is not the same as actually used in real world scenarios. Show me a real world example of pgsql failover and re-mastering that does not involve a restore and not editing configs. How basic? Not even sybase ASE server needs that. Ingres made change in the 80's, everyone else copied it and built on it. Except postgres. It's the Minix of databases. Show me any proof, that anything of scale is h…

> All that big facebook and apple data is happening in cassandra (and foundationdb for apple)

Not sure about Instagram, but I can tell you with complete confidence that Facebook proper (meaning specifically Facebook, not the rest of Meta) moved away from Cassandra well over a decade ago. They originally used Cassandra for FB messages / Messenger, but soon migrated to HBase and then over to MySQL / MyRocks.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by samlambert »

miohtama wrote: post #15
mathnode wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Maybe you have misconception about the scalability of PostgreSQL. > According to Instagram representatives, the number of platform users exceeded 2 billion last year. This is quarter of all humanity. This mass of people publishes nearly 50 million photos a day. Football star Cristiano Ronaldo has over 600 million followers; singer Ariana Grande has over 380 million. Talk about huge databases! > Instagram uses many RD…

I hate to tell you this but they migrated to MySQL a long time ago to be able to scale.

Also relevant: https://www.uber.com/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by mathnode »

lfmunoz4 wrote: post #7

What are some reasons to use MariaDB over PostgreSQL?

I would say the main advantage is scale and uptime. If you need to replicate, duplicate, or maintain state beyond one server; there are very few good RDBMS options, let alone open source. The MariaDB ecosystem competes with IBM Purescale and Oracle RAC; it's hard to appreciate that, until you really need it.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by evanelias »

gigatexal wrote: post #18

Only question is will it remain open source and free.

MariaDB Server is GPL and must always remain GPL, as it's a fork of MySQL which was also GPL.

Also the MariaDB Foundation is separate from the commercial/enterprise entity MariaDB plc. This article is about the latter being taken private.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by mathnode »

evanelias wrote: post #22
mathnode wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"popular with developers" is not the same as actually used in real world scenarios. Show me a real world example of pgsql failover and re-mastering that does not involve a restore and not editing configs. How basic? Not even sybase ASE server needs that. Ingres made change in the 80's, everyone else copied it and built on it. Except postgres. It's the Minix of databases. Show me any proof, that anything of scale is h…

> All that big facebook and apple data is happening in cassandra (and foundationdb for apple) Not sure about Instagram, but I can tell you with complete confidence that Facebook proper (meaning specifically Facebook, not the rest of Meta) moved away from Cassandra well over a decade ago. They originally used Cassandra for FB messages / Messenger, but soon migrated to HBase and then over to MySQL / MyRocks.

That is not at all surprising. We all know they have the resources to find a solution to their massive data problems.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by johannes1234321 »

miohtama wrote: post #15
mathnode wrote: post #12

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Maybe you have misconception about the scalability of PostgreSQL. > According to Instagram representatives, the number of platform users exceeded 2 billion last year. This is quarter of all humanity. This mass of people publishes nearly 50 million photos a day. Football star Cristiano Ronaldo has over 600 million followers; singer Ariana Grande has over 380 million. Talk about huge databases! > Instagram uses many RD…

> Talk about huge databases!

Mind that they don't have one data base co training the data, but many many many small databases independent holding small chunks of the data.

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