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benohear
on March 7, 2012
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MySQL branch maintained and used at Google
Any idea why they went for that over Postgres?
chc
on March 7, 2012
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Probably YouTube went for MySQL because that was a standard part of the LAMP stack — in the absence of any compelling factors, just about any Web developer in the mid-2000s would have chosen MySQL — and Google didn't see the benefit to switching.
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