Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ (itechtalks.blogspot.com)

Seeing HN full of unattributed reposts is a 'fate worse than death'

Facebook is using mysql at massive scale, and we conjecture that they are unhappy with it, therefore it doesn't scale.

Pretty much an advertisement for VoltDB and a trashing of noSQL and traditional (old) SQL databases.

"NewSQL products maintain ACID properties while eliminating most of the other functions that slow legacy SQL performance. VoltDB, an online-transaction processing (OLTP) database, utilizes a number of methods to improve speed, including by running entirely in-memory instead of on disk."

Any database whether newSQL, oldSQL, or noSQL will see huge gains by running entirely in memory. This hardly says much about the advantages of any one system over another. Even on VoltDB's web site the high performance read and write benefit is attributed to it not being disk-based.

Is there any major ingenuity involved in VoltDB? Touting the obvious "let's just run the entire thing in memory" trick isn't exactly a great selling point.

I knew I had read this somewhere before...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742029

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740432

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745460

rajeshvaya - it appears itechtalks.blogspot.com likes to repost articles directly copied from other sources without attribution. I find this behavior reprehensible.

Multiple HN repost, please remove.