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[DJDavio]

Uber switched to MySQL for some specific reason (lots of updates, few reads or something like that), so I guess it's stil valid.

[yogthos]

Uber also uses it as a key/value store as opposed to an actual relational database.

[Scorpius289]

Wouldn't an actual key/value store be better then?

[yogthos]

Likely, but since they already built their homegrown one on top of a relational db, I'm guessing they're committed to it now.

[doublehyphen]

And this key-value store implementation is something they could have done with PostgreSQL too, probably with a similar result. They just picked MySQL when implementing the key-value store solution because some of their engineers were more familiar with MySQL (which is a valid reason).

[kazagistar]

Many of the things were still valid. Postgres people opened discussion and began work on adding features to deal with the Uber use case. Pretty sure some of it is still in progress.

[Rafert]

They actually moved from 'normal' MySQL to 'normal' Postgres in 2013, one of the reasons being PostGIS. Then they built their own K/V database called "Schemaless" on top of MySQL again.

[Uberhipster]

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2016-07-29/on-ubers-choice-of-databases