This page contains a transcription of the famous 'MongoDB is web scale' video, made by gar1t using xtranormals.com text-to-speech engine. Links open in a new browser tab or window. Loading the player ... "And in conclusion, we have found MySQL to be an excellent database for our website. Any questions?" Yes, I have a question. Why didn't you use MongoDB? MongoDB is a web scale database, and doesn't use SQL or JOINs, so it's high-performance . "That's an excellent question. We evaluated several NoSQL databases and concluded that the options are still too immature for our production needs. MySQL is a proven database that is used across the web and has the features we need." But it doesn't scale. Everybody knows that relational databases don't scale because they use JOINs and write to disk. "Scalability is a compli...