Re: Why facebook used mysql ?

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Richard Broersma <
richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> The following link contains hundreds of comments that you may be
> interested in, some that address issues that are much more interesting
> and well established:
>
>
> http://search.postgresql.org/search?q=mysql+performance&m=1&l=NULL&d=365&s=r&p=1
>

I did actually try to search for topics on multiple cores vs MySQL, but I
wasnt able to find anything of much use. Elsewhere (on Hacker News for
example), I have indeed come across statements that PG scales better on
multiple cores, which are usually offset by claims that MySQL is better.

Google isnt of much use for this either - while MySQL has several resources
talking about benchmarks/tuning on multi core servers (e.g.
http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/2010/09/mysql-performance-55-notes.html),
I cant find any such serious discussion on Postgresql

However, what I did find (
http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/72.en.html) was titled "*Problems
with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems with Multi-Terabyte Data*"
(interestingly, published by the Postgresql Performance Team @ Sun)

Ergo, my question still stands - maybe my google-fu was bad... why is why I
am asking for help.

regards
Sandeep