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gh-ostSoftware

2 companies

GitHubCompany
Code hosting and collaboration platform
recommended

gh-ost changes the existing online table migration paradigm by providing a low impact, controllable, auditable, operations friendly solution.

GitHub announcing gh-ost, its triggerless online schema migration tool for MySQL

github.blog ↗·2016-08-01Wrong?

Cash AppCompany
Block's mobile payments and banking app
mixed

Gh-ost was designed in a time when MySQL replication was single threaded. As a direct consequence of this, it itself is only single threaded.

Why Cash App built its own online schema change tool instead of continuing with gh-ost

code.cash.app ↗·2023-10-23Wrong?

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