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Friday, December 09, 2005
Let's get a real database
posted by Ron at 3:09 PM
This story is a bit of a tangent, but I think it's worth telling because there are some useful lessons to be learned. AdWords was built using the MySQL database, which is open-source and therefore available for free. It is by now also nearly as full-featured as the best commercial databases, but back in 2000 this was not the case. MySQL was quite a capable system, but missing a few (what some would consider basic) features. These missing features were obviously not a show-stopper, as we managed to get AdWords to work without them, but in a few cases it did take some extra programming to work around one of these missing features. On the plus side, MySQL was fast and reliable and, as I have already noted, free. After AdWords launched, Jane, the ads group manager, decided that now would be a good time to switch over to a "real" database. "Real" is one of those words that Doug ought to add to his list of words . It means "expensive". Many managers seem to have this idea that it is invariably true that you get what you pay for, and that therefore nothing that is available for free can possibly be any good. Using MySQL was acceptable as an expedient to get things up and running quickly and with a minimal of capital outlay, but now that things were settling down it was time to recognize that this was really, fundamentally, a mistake, and it should be fixed sooner rather than later. The flip side of this philosophy is the one more commonly espoused by engineers, which is nicely summed up by the old aphorism, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Yes, MySQL was missing some features, but it wasn't broke(n). We"
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