Mike Stonebraker is famous for slagging Google's backend. And now he's slagging Facebook's too.
Last week, in a piece from our friends at GigaOM, Database Grandpoobah Mike Stonebraker announced that Facebook's continued dependance on MySQL was “a fate worse than death,” insisting that the social network's only route to salvation is to “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”
We're confident he was quoted warmly and accurately. After all, he said much the same thing to The Register. "Facebook has shared their social network over something north of 4,000 MySQL instances, and that's nowhere near fast enough, so they're put 9,000 instances of memcached in memory in front of them. They are just dying trying to manage this," Stonebraker recently told us. "They have to do data consistency and crash recovery in user space."
Read more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/13/mike_stonebraker_versus_facebook/
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