Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:05:21PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
> So in my opinion, as long as the general awareness about RDBMS (on what
> tasks/responsibilities it should do, what features it generally has to
> have, etc) is low, people will be looking at MySQL as "good enough" and
> will not be motivated to look around for something better. As a
> comparison, I'm always amazed by people who use Windows 95/98/Me. They
> find it normal/"good enough" that the system crashes every now and then,
> has to be rebooted every few hours (or every time they install
> something). They don't know of anything better.

Agree. People don't know that an RDBMS can be more better.

A lot of users think speed is the most important thing. And they check
the performance of SQL server by "time mysql -e "SELECT..." but they
don't know something about concurrency or locking.

BTW, is the current MySQL target (replication, transactions, ..etc)
what typical MySQL users expect? I think they will lost users who love
classic, fast and simple MySQL. The trade with advanced SQL servers is
pretty full. I don't understand why MySQL developers want to leave
their current possition and want to fight with PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2
.. etc.

Karel

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