See the post on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/provisionalidea.bsky.social/post/3lhujtm2qkc2i
According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.
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"Our databases only store in RAM because I AM THE ELECTRICITY BATTERY MASTER"
You save quite a lot of time when working on a database if it's stored in RAM compared to tape, so it does make sense to use that technology
Yeah in memory databases can be super fast.
till the power goes out
Then you lose your database quickly, so it’s still fast
Your delete is O(1)? Ha! Our delete operation runs in O(0).
It in Elon's case, catches fire and locks you in
My use case is primarily real time data capture - raw log is written to disk and can be recovered from, although at that point we'd have fallen back on the secondary as primary would now be suspect.
At which point you have to slurp down a few hundred terabytes from the other datacenters when the power turns back on.
This is why Google datacenter managers hesitate to turn off the power even when an employee is in the process of getting electrocuted.
You have to link a source for something that offhandedly horrific
Sadly I cannot, since the source is an ex-Googler I know in person who was there personally. While I fully believe the story, I'm just some rando on the Internet, so you're welcome to take it with the appropriate pile of salt.
Thank you for the honesty, I do believe you fwiw, it's in line with general business practices