Re:Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
by dastbe on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @02:00PM
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So arguably, they are using mysql as a storage engine rather than as a database.
They don't explicitly answer the question "Why didn't you use InnoDB/WiredTiger/etc. for your dataplane?", but you get the idea that they were very happy with the specific characteristics of MySQL for their use case and so they built on top of it. It also sounds like they had some deadlines (specifically, the death of their datastore) that they had to meet :).
They don't explicitly answer the question "Why didn't you use InnoDB/WiredTiger/etc. for your dataplane?", but you get the idea that they were very happy with the specific characteristics of MySQL for their use case and so they built on top of it. It also sounds like they had some deadlines (specifically, the death of their datastore) that they had to meet :).