Re: Your database comparison article

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Mr. Kaufman,
>
> I quite liked your article about MySQL vs. MS SQL Server:
>
http://www.zdnet.com.au/builder/architect/database/story/0,2000034918,20
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> 2967,00.htm
>
I'm not sure I agree. The article was full of blanket generalizations
(i.e. performance: advantage MySQL) with little or no factual basis
beyond the author's presumed knowledge. I'm being nitpicky, but these
are generalizations have been hurting postgres for some time (slow,
difficult to install, etc. etc.). The rest of the article was mostly a
rundown of MySQL's feature list without much of a technical comparison.

The correlation between performance and complexity, (simpler, therefore
faster) is a false one and there are many data paradigms to evaluate
before drawing performance conclusions. The subtle irony I picked up on
was the article's title: "MySQL or SQL Server: Look beyond politics and
hype" was for an article which IMHO was mostly hype. Oh well.

Merlin