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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by amix on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @07:40AM (#6717402)
And you base this on what? MySQL is used to scale some of the biggest Internet properties in the world and it has been doing that for many years. Stop spreading FUD.
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Re:MongoDB is to NoSQL like MySQL to SQL - in the most harmf... by smoyer on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:03AM (#6717508)
FUD is actually useful (engineering FUD rather than marketing FUD) ... if you pick MySQL because it's easy to get started, you need to know its pros and cons. Those scaling MySQL at the biggest Internet properties in the world ARE database experts - Facebook for instance has a custom cache and memcached in front of their MySQL instances [1], shards their data and also uses other database technologies where appropriate. People like Facebook’s Mark Callaghan will be successful using any reasonable database.

[1] - http://gigaom.com/2011/12/06/facebook-shares-some-secrets-on...

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