Re: Somewhat OT - interesting interview of Mike Stonebraker

From: Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:20:05 -0400
Message-ID: <CAE-dsO+7GKmEqpxe8WFwf0364Qqs2cLdDQAPNaJ_FKP7O0R5Dw_at_mail.gmail.com>

For the RSS feeds and for adding to your friends list, they may not need acid properties. they may be able to live with dirty reads on this to get it to scale. if you have not finished with the commit in a de-friends does it really matter if someone sees it as done when you have this level of volume? I actually agree with the guy that in many cases unstructured data like images and videos can often be stored outside of a database and this reduces over.

that being said. it sure sounds like the facebook guys don't know anything about sql or data modelling. its probably just a big data dump. For all their mad programming skills, their database design sounds like junk. some good data modellers might do wonders for them.

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale_at_gmail.com>wrote:

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> I just posted the link to my FaceBook page (where very few of my friends
> know databases).
> That will scare some of them ..... ha !
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> Hemant
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> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_roughsea.com>wrote:
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>> http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/
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