Re: Uber moving towards MySQL
Damien Clochard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy |
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| Organization | Dalibo |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Le 30.07.2016 19:01, Michael Banck a écrit : > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 28.07.2016, 06:24 -0700 schrieb Robert Bernier: >> Folks, >> >> https://ayende.com/blog/175137/re-why-uber-engineering-switched-from-postgres-to-mysql >> >> This is getting serious; two popularized articles on hacker news now >> slamming postgres. >> >> I've read and caught up on our mailthread regarding the technical >> issues. >> >> Although no way near as knowledgeable as many of you regarding the >> inner workings of MySQL, let alone postgres, I do however recognize >> navel gazing when I see it. The first article starting this thread was >> a convoluted justification of one's own religion. This second article >> is pure commercial leveraging of a thread that's garnered a lot of >> attention. >> >> It's time a response from the postgres community was forthcoming. > > Markus Winand wrote a pretty good (and leveled, in my opinion) analysis > of Uber's choices and their trade-offs here: > > http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choice-of-databases > > That hasn't been picked up by Hacker News yet though. > Markus' article didn't make it to the HN front page heaven : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12187797 However there's another post linking directly to pgsql-hackers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201353 So now let's all talk here about some Hacker News comments relative to a PostgreSQL mailing-list and get stuck in an infinite loop :) Joke aside, the HN comments really show that the key point is not about the arguments we can object to Uber's article, but **how** we respond to it. some comments among others : « they're admitting there's a problem (which exists for this very specific user case) and not just deflecting the criticism. I'm impressed, I'd say a lot of projects couldn't have handled this so nicely » « I have a lot more respect for this than say MongoDb which claims to be great at everything. » « The attitude with which the article is discussed in the mailing list is admirable. » « Couldn't help contrasting it to some popular programming language mailing lists, especially a CSP inspired language by a major search company. » To me, this whole story is a nice example of how we can transform a supposedly bad public announcement into a positive communication. The medium is the message ! :) -- -- Damien Clochard -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy