| I _very_ rarely flag articles. But look at this thread. Has it generated good discussion? There's a lot of hot air with no backing up on both sides of yet another holy war that I'm already sick of hearing about. And a few choice statements from the article: > I would say Digg's case is an example of a bottom-feeder RDBMS product (apologies for being incendiary, but why does the problem always come down to MySQL? These examples always end up being "we moved from MySQL to NoSQL" rather than "We moved from Sybase ASE to NoSQL"), used arguably suboptimally on unpowered hardware, > went contrary to the demonstration that even a mediocre machine can beat their results. > Nonetheless, it is a warning sign of a foundational product issue. > Decent database products like SQL Server even allow you to include > So either MySQL is an atrociously bad product at the larger limits, which ample evidence seems to point as a truism, > Please get away from the compiler and save the world from your monstrosities until you have some knowledge of these basic concepts. > Alternately you can just clutch onto NoSQL and bleat about how it changes all of the rules anyways, which is the route quite a few have decided to pursue Okay, I'm done. Point is, dude is straight up trolling about how MySQL sucks. This article does nothing but fuel the fire of yet another flamewar, and so it gets flagged. I'd like discussions to remain sane around here. |
Maybe MySQL really isn't a decent database product, or not for high performance needs. How many of his statements are troll-ish in that light?