How does Facebook manage 1800 MySQL Servers with just 3 DBAs?

I expect this may be down to the terminology. Sybase always used to quote huge numbers for DBA:database ratio compared to Oracle. But what Sybase refers to as a "database", Oracle just refers to as a "schema", and there can be as many schemas as you want within an Oracle database.<p>And even if it is 1800 physical servers... If significant fractions of them are identical, they really should only be counted as one database cluster with so-many nodes.

The title is pure linkbait.<p>While interesting, this is a sales pitch and not much about the product itself. Flagged.

If I had to guess I would say it is by locking the 3 DBAs in a small room and not letting them touch a computer...