Yahoo! uses the MySQL database to power many of the services on Yahoo! Finance, a popular web site that provides the full spectrum of financial services and information. Prior to its switch to MySQL in 2000, Yahoo! Finance managed its database needs through homegrown flat files and Berkeley DB databases. But those solutions proved to be inflexible and not scalable enough for their needs, with the volume of data nearly doubling every few months. MySQL handles the high-volume, 260 million record tables just as well as the small, low-volume ones. MySQL features such as replication and the ready-to-use APIs and libraries have also helped Yahoo! manage its demanding applications smoothly.
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