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Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • Cc: Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Brandon Aiken <BAiken(at)winemantech(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
  • Subject: Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: postgresql vs mysql)
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:46:07 -0300
  • Message-id: <20070223024607(dot)GE7744(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>

Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> >> Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> >>> On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
> >>>> That depends greatly on what you're doing with it. Generally, as soon
> >>>> as you start throwing a multi-user workload at it, MySQL stops
> >>>> scaling. http://tweakers.net recently did a study on that.
> >>> I think I recall that wikipedia uses MySQL ... they get quite a few
> >>> hits, too, I believe.
> >> And outages if you watch :)
> > 
> > Does this mean that we believe the Wikipedia would not suffer any
> > outages if it ran on Postgres?
> 
> I believe it would suffer less outage yes.

And how is SourceForge doing these days, by the way?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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