"maintaining ACID compliance" [sic] is considered an overhead, weird! that is just what a DBMS has to provide to be considered a DBMS. Mario. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 17:28, Stephane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ > -- > Stephane Faroult > RoughSea Ltd > Konagora > RoughSea Channel on Youtube > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l