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

From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
Cc: David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: 2004-04-23 09:47:31
Message-ID: 4088E633.9080901@cybertec.at
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Karel Zak wrote:
> 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.

Even worse: They benchmark "SELECT 1+1" one million times.
The performance of "SELECT 1+1" has NOTHING to do with the REAL
performance of a database.
Has anybody seen the benchmarks on MySQL??? They have benchmarked
"CREATE TABLE" and so forth. This is the most useless thing I have ever
seen.

It is so annoying _ I had to post it ;).

Regards,

Hans

> 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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