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dcolumbus
Asked: 2011-04-26 17:02:14 +0800 CST

Is MySQL Good Enough for Large Scale?

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My question is probably fairly common, but I wanted to ask it anyway.

When choosing a database type for large scale application (social networking, for example), is MySQL able to handle it? I mean, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users...

If not, I can't imagine that everyone would be using Microsoft Servers and SQL. What would be the suitable alternates?

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  1. Best Answer

    Facebook uses MySql. See this video, a presentation by Facebook devs, on how they do it http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/facebook-mysql-scale.php

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  2. this is a list of a few big fishes that use MySQL:

    United Nations
Mc Graw Hill
YouTube
Facebook
Adobe
Wikipedia
Wordpress
Drupal

    I hope this could help you to clear your mind ;)

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  3. Yes. Scalability is not one of the problems with MySQL.

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  4. Yes it is. MySQL on proper hardware and good configuration can handle 1000s of writes per second and reads can scale out into 10's of thousands per second across replicated slaves

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