MySQL

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9 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Eric (MemSQL) · said 69 times in 35 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Everything said about MySQL, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Frenkiel: MemSQL on EC2 achieves 1ms latency vs 60ms for MySQL
“Whenever you go with MM-SQL on EC-II, for example, you will see, like, one millisecond response times, and a Postgres or a MySQL is on the order of 60.”
Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 18:26 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012
Jan 16, 2014
Disclosure
Premise opted for MySQL over NoSQL for its database infrastructure
“We use MySQL, for example. We're not a big NoSQL shop.”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 24:50 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 3, 2014 positive
Disclosure
Rent the Runway's 2014 open source stack: MySQL, Mongo, Redis, and R
“Our entire transactional stuff is, is, is on MySQL. We use Mongo for a product catalog. We use Redis to serve recommendations. We use R to do the matrix factorization. Should I touch everything? I think I did. We use tons of Python scripts for parsing the revi…”
Vijay Subramanian Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 17:39 Vijay Subramanian, Rent the Runway // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014
Apr 20, 2015 positive
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Neo4j ran a social network graph query 1,000 times faster than MySQL
“We ran that in MySQL, and that was a 2000 millisecond operation. 2000 millisecond operation. In Neo-for-J, that was a two millisecond operation. So it's a thousand times faster.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 20:45 Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jun 19, 2015
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Kimball: Google expanded its MySQL AdWords backend to 1,000 shards before replacement
“And I ran into this, like, really head first, like, into a brick wall when I got to Google in 2002, and they were using sharded MySQL in order to run their AdWords backend, and they went from, like, eight shards to 12 shards to 30 shards. By the time they repl…”
Spencer Kimball Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 1:53 Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 19, 2019
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Borgman: Facebook Runs the Largest MySQL Deployment
“Facebook happens to run the largest MySQL deployment as well.”
Justin Borgman Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 2:19 Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apr 5, 2021
Disclosure
Burgess outlines Pinterest's online serving and batch data engineering stack
“So data engineering at Pinterest comprises the serving part, all the online systems. So that includes the online databases like MySQL and key value stores like RocksDB and HBase, and also includes Druid platform. So we have our online systems. We also have all…”
Dave Burgess Apr 5, 2021 ▶ 22:07 Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Nov 17, 2022
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Kimball: Google ran over 1,000 MySQL shards for a decade before Spanner
“Google didn't replace that system with Spanner, I think for almost 10 years. So by that time it had gotten to a thousand plus shards of MySQL.”
Spencer Kimball Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 49:20 A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
Mar 28, 2023
Disclosure
SurrealDB founders relied on four databases for prior golf analytics platform
“In building this, we were building with InfluxDB, OrientDB, DynamoDB and MySQL.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 0:56 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
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