[tfecw]

I doubt oracle would be doing any better and would cost a hell of a lot more. Facebook is pretty much in uncharted waters with their scaling. Look for another custom solution similar to haystack or scribe that fits their specific requirements.

[Peter from Rutland]

Oracle can scale like you wouldn’t believe.

[mad_as_he$$]

I disagree. One of my company’s implemented an Oracle DB for a Fortune 100 company that handles all of their assets world wide and EVERY daily transaction from Purchase Orders to a Maintenance guy putting a drop of oil on a machine in Bum F Egypt; including inventory of parts and finished goods. Daily data dump is in the hundreds of gigs. Makes Facebook look like child’s play.