[Lazarus] More explorations with tiOPF

[Henry Vermaak]

On 16 March 2011 07:48, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op 2011-03-15 17:32, Henry Vermaak het geskryf:
>>
>> I've actually enjoyed this thread up to now, but it's getting up to
>> the flamebait and fud stage.  Facebook primarily uses MySQL, as do
>> many other of your "toy" applications.
>
> As far as I know (I read it recently - I'll look for the link) Facebook uses
> a custom written database, not MySQL. Same goes for Google's Gmail. It's not
> even a relational database, but some "new" hybrid database type optimized
> for there specific data.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/

Google AdWords uses MySQL, so does Wikipedia.

Henry