From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL |
Date: | 2003-11-11 21:29:14 |
Message-ID: | 3FB154AA.90606@commandprompt.com |
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>MySQL 4 Cons:
> -- Few SQL Features: MySQL does not currently have procedure or function
>support, no schema, does not support many types of subselects, and
>transaction support is very new with some reported problems and exceptions.
> -- Not ACID Compliant: Does not fullfill standard ACID defintitions, due to
>numerous weaknesses in constraints, data typing and transaction isolation.
>See http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html for more information.
>
>
Personally I think we should have the info on a postgresql site.
> -- Dual License: due to MySQL's GPL license, you must purchase a license
>from MySQL AB for many commercial applications.
>
>
This isn't accurate. It would be more accurate to say "for closed source
applications".
> -- Single-Company Project: the MySQL Project is owned and controlled by a
>single company, MySQL AB. This means that the project lives or dies with
>that company, which is currently venture-capital funded.
>
>
This is also inaccurate as MySQL is GPL so the project would live on.
> -- Questionable Reliability: Lack of open-source hot backup tools and
>automated database recovery utilities make MySQL very vulnerable to system
>failures and hardware problems.
>
>
The term Questionable Reliability is a little flammatory... just
Reliability would probably
suffice. The description afterwords pretty much makes it questionable.
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