MySQL Adopters
Organizations that run MySQL in production — each one backed by a public source: an engineering blog, a conference talk, or a case study.
| Company | Industry | Use case | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airbnb | Travel marketplace | Core databases on Aurora MySQL; MySQL replication used to partition the main database | MySQL customer page → |
| Backblaze | Cloud storage | Runs Vitess (sharded MySQL) in production | KubeCon NA 2024 talk → |
| Booking.com | Travel | Main relational datastore: thousands of servers in 200+ clusters, 20+ years on MySQL | MySQL Global Forum 2025 slides → |
| Cash App (Block) | Fintech | Started on a single MySQL database, scaled out with Vitess | Cash App blog → |
| Dropbox | Cloud storage | Edgestore metadata store on thousands of MySQL shards | Dropbox Tech blog → |
| Etsy | E-commerce | ~1,000 MySQL shards (425 TB), migrated to Vitess | InfoQ, Apr 2026 → |
| GitHub | Developer platform | Primary datastore for metadata (issues, PRs, comments); fleet upgraded to MySQL 8.0 | GitHub Blog → |
| HubSpot | SaaS / CRM | MySQL on Vitess and Kubernetes | CNCF case study → |
| Intercom | SaaS / customer service | MySQL is the primary datastore; moving from Aurora to Vitess on PlanetScale | Intercom blog → |
| Meta | Social media | Social graph tier (UDB) on MySQL with the MyRocks engine | Engineering at Meta → |
| Nozzle | SEO analytics | Vitess on Kubernetes; founder is a Vitess maintainer | KubeCon NA 2024 talk → |
| Social media | Sharded MySQL as the core store for pins, boards and users | High Scalability → | |
| Pipedrive | SaaS / CRM | Schema-per-customer sharded MySQL plus microservice databases | Pipedrive R&D blog → |
| Shopify | E-commerce | Every shop's data in MySQL shards inside isolated pods | Shopify Engineering → |
| Slack | Workplace communication | All data on MySQL since day one; Vitess serves 99% of query load | Slack Engineering → |
| Twitter / X | Social media | MySQL behind tweets, timelines and user data; moved from in-house fork to community MySQL 5.7 | SiliconANGLE, 2012 → |
| Uber | Mobility | Schemaless trip datastore built on sharded MySQL | Uber Engineering → |
| Wix | Website builder | MySQL as default engine, including as a key/value store | Wix Engineering → |
| Yelp | Local reviews | Nearly all data in MySQL (Percona Server), functionally sharded | Yelp Engineering → |
| YouTube | Video streaming | Video metadata on sharded MySQL; Vitess was built here | Vitess history → |
| Zendesk | SaaS / customer service | Aurora MySQL + S3 tiered storage for event data | InfoQ, Dec 2023 → |