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		alnayyir on Oct 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQL Databases Don't Scale >You just can't make Postgres (or Oracle) scale on an ideal horizontal the same way you can distribute IP, DNS, HTTP proxying, HTTP serving, memcache, message queues, or bigtable. Is there something about MySQL that exempts it from this scaling weakness that I'm not aware of? I'm not bull-baiting, I'm just covering the bases and wondering if there's some reason it's not presently under discussion. Part of the reason I ask is because I've been pushing for a shift to Postgres at work after we get some more pressing matters dealt with.

johnnybgoode on Oct 4, 2009 [–]

> Is there something about MySQL that exempts it from this scaling weakness that I'm not aware of?

No, there isn't. We're discussing Postgres since that's what Heroku uses.

alnayyir on Oct 4, 2009 | [–]

In that case, I'll carry on with my Postgres evangelism. Thank you for your time.

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