MySQL, NoSQL or NewSQL?

MySQL has been pushed to its limits in large scale web scenarios, where the load of millions of users concurrently accessing SQL relational databases start to show the huge overheads and subsequent limitation of this type of database. A recent “move” on NoSQL databases appeared, not without their own idiosyncrasies and issues, and more recently a new… er… NewSQL paradigm has been proposed as a scalable, efficient and reliable solution to the problem. Have a look at why Facebook is trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’.