Instangram is powered by PostgreSQL

unclesam wrote:

just wanna to share that Instagram use PostgreSQL. excellent ! this
company worth for 1 billion is powered by PostgreSQL

Click link below

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/9/the-instagram-architecture-facebook-bought-for-a-cool-billio.html

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/20541814340/keeping-instagram-up-with-over-a-million-new-users-in

Hopefully that will infect Facebook, which is MySQL otherwise, or at least
hopefully MySQL won't infect Instagram. -- Darren Duncan

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:50 AM, unclesam <geekmatter@yahoo.com> wrote:

just wanna to share that Instagram use PostgreSQL. excellent ! this company
worth for 1 billion is powered by PostgreSQL

Click link below

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/9/the-instagram-architecture-facebook-bought-for-a-cool-billio.html

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/20541814340/keeping-instagram-up-with-over-a-million-new-users-in

pretty neat to see postgres mentioned in high scalability
environments. one of my favorite quotes from the article:

"Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (“Natty Narwhal”). Solid, other Ubuntu versions
froze on them."

merlin