Your Guide to MySQL (no

“NoSQL” stuff)

A consistent transactional datastore with schema guarantees that uses

relational algebra to access normalized tables.

It has ubiquitous accessor classes and a deep bench of

skilled architects, developers, and operations staff.

Slow?

Replication!

Write Master Read Slave

Still Slow?

More replication!

Lots of Read Slaves!

Still Slow?

memcached!

Still Slow? Too Big?

Shard!

Bottlenecked?

slaves of slavesbigger server

RAIDSSD

faster switch

HA?!

DRBD!RAID!

Slave promotion!

Can’t ALTER TABLE?!

JSON E-Blob

A consistent transactional datastore with schema guarantees that uses

relational algebra to access normalized tables.

It has ubiquitous accessor classes and a deep bench of

experienced architects, developers, and operations.

But at least it’s not NoSQL