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Re:MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure by v3ss0n on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:05PM (#37891461)
MySQL have unfixable legacy code for scalability that world top database engineer gave up and asked users to stop using.. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/12...

facebook was build using pho mysql since start, by the time they have billion dollar valuation 8ts too late for them to change.

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Re:MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure by endisneigh on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:48PM (#37891792)
Considering the source take it with a grain of salt
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Re:MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure by v3ss0n on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:26AM (#37897075)
Oracle engineer who is tasked to work on MySQL optimizations is not a good source?
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Re:MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure by endisneigh on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:14AM (#37897387)
A single departing employees opinion is not definitive, no. Considering both YouTube and Facebook use modified MySQL I’m skeptical there’s some inherent structural disadvantages.

Not to mention no technical reasoning is given at all, so yes take the article with a grain of salt.

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Re:MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure by samlambert on Sunday October 15, 2023 @02:17PM (#37892018)
They have reevaluated multiple times.
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