From: | Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> |
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To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | Ron Chmara <ron(at)Opus1(dot)COM>, "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>, Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>, Erich <hh(at)cyberpass(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Postgresql usage clip. |
Date: | 2000-05-31 01:22:57 |
Message-ID: | 39346971.90ADD278@selectacast.net |
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Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> Ron Chmara wrote:
> > "Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> > > MySQL is great for small websites with small budgets with read-only data
> > > or data that doesn't change often. It doesn't scale very well at all, and
> > > for larger sites it really falls apart without anyy referential integrity
> > > or supprto for views. But beyond that, you really need something bigger
> > > like Postgres (for a big site with a small budget) or Oracle (for a huge
> > > site with a huger budget).
> >
> > Have a db comparison toy. Lots of fun.
> >
> > http://mysql.com/crash-me-choose.htmy
>
> There was some discussion about exactly that crashme this
> month. Some detailed analysis turned out that many places
> where it says "unsupported" in reality mean "does not support
> MySQL's non standard syntax". Others are totally mislabeled.
>
> And on the performance, it triggered a problem in PostgreSQL
> that is unlikely in real world scenarios (creating and
> dropping 20,000 tables first, blowing up a system catalog).
> Then running the test queries with the blown up catalog.
> Really smart benchmark :-)
Well it *is* called crashme.
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