Re: postgre vs MySQL

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:08:27 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On 14/03/2008, rrahul <rahul(dot)rathi(at)cognizant(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I see Mysql bosting for Google,Yahoo, Alcatel......
> >> What about Postgres the list is not that impressive.
>
> > What then? Could it be marketing or the sad results of a
> > avalanche effect? Geee, there's a thought.
>
> Marketing. Remember that MySQL AB have a strong financial
> incentive to make organized efforts to locate and publicize
> impressive-sounding users of MySQL. (I've heard rumors they even
> give licensing discounts to companies that will let their names be
> used like that.)
>
> There is no comparable effort happening on the Postgres side.
> There are plenty of impressive users of PG too, but they don't have
> to talk about it.

I still find impressing that Google uses MySQL... I can guess why,
I'd enjoy to hear a more informed opinion.
I'd say: 1) legacy 2) no particular interest in data
integrity/coherence

Something more here
http://www.postgresql.org/about/casestudies/
and a bit updated would help too.

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