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MySQLSoftware

8 companies

UberCompany
Ride-hailing, delivery and freight platform
liked

We are generally quite happy with MySQL, and we may have more blog articles in the future explaining some of its more advanced uses at Uber.

Why Uber Engineering switched from Postgres to MySQL

uber.com ↗·2016-07-26Wrong?

GitHubCompany
Code hosting and collaboration platform
recommended

Today, MySQL remains a core part of GitHub's infrastructure and our relational database of choice.

GitHub on MySQL as its relational database, from its MySQL 8.0 upgrade post

github.blog ↗·2023-12-07Wrong?

CanvaCompany
Online design and visual communication platform.
uses

We started with the tech stack we were most familiar with, MySQL, and built major components separately using worker services.

Canva on starting its content usage counting service on MySQL before moving to DynamoDB and OLAP

canva.dev ↗·2024-04-12Wrong?

Cash AppCompany
Block's mobile payments and banking app
uses

Because many schema changes in MySQL are blocking, the accepted workaround for many years has been to use an external tool such as pt-online-schema-change or Gh-ost .

Cash App on running schema changes against MySQL at scale

code.cash.app ↗·2023-10-23Wrong?

Booking.comCompany
Online travel booking platform
uses

since a large part of our infrastructure is MySQL we need to be able to deploy these changes with a minimal amount trouble.

Booking.com on running MySQL 5.6 GTIDs across its infrastructure

medium.com ↗·2014-03-26Wrong?

ZapierCompany
Workflow automation platform connecting web apps.
uses

We debated on using PostgreSQL, but decided to go with MySQL, again, for familiarity's sake we need to just get up and going.

Zapier on choosing MySQL over PostgreSQL for familiarity

zapier.com ↗·2012-01-27Wrong?

PlanetScaleCompany
Managed database platform built on Vitess and Postgres
mixed

These are all features that vanilla MySQL cannot and does not provide.

Why PlanetScale built on Vitess

planetscale.com ↗·2021-07-20Wrong?

LinkedInCompany
Professional social network
mixed

These include replacing MySQL replication in Espresso with Kafka-based replication, Venice and supporting the next generation of Databus (which is under development).

LinkedIn replaces MySQL replication in Espresso with Kafka

linkedin.com ↗·2016-04-19Wrong?

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