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Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast by duskwuff on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:18PM (#8817315)
They started with MySQL. Replacing that with MariaDB is a whole lot simpler (not to mention, less risky!) than replacing it with something completely different like Cassandra.
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Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast by rimantas on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @07:03AM (#8819043)
They started with PostgreSQL iirc, only later migrated to MySQL.
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