On 16 March 2011 07:48, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: > Op 2011-03-15 17:32, Henry Vermaak het geskryf: >> >> I've actually enjoyed this thread up to now, but it's getting up to >> the flamebait and fud stage. Facebook primarily uses MySQL, as do >> many other of your "toy" applications. > > As far as I know (I read it recently - I'll look for the link) Facebook uses > a custom written database, not MySQL. Same goes for Google's Gmail. It's not > even a relational database, but some "new" hybrid database type optimized > for there specific data.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/ Google AdWords uses MySQL, so does Wikipedia. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
