Database high priest mud wrestles Facebook
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Last week, in a piece from our friends at GigaOM, Database Grandpoobah Mike Stonebraker announced that Facebook's continued dependance on MySQL was "a fate worse than death," insisting that the social network's only route to salvation is to "bite the bullet and rewrite everything."
Stonebraker's Facebook comments drew fire not only from a core database engineer at Mark Zuckerberg's social networking outfit, but also from the recognized kingpin of "cloud computing": Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels.
So Stonebraker hates MySQL. Of course it might be just a strange coincidence that the same Stonebraker helped develop Postgres and now works on VoltDB. So this is pretty much a PR stunt to get some attention.