| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Ron Chmara <ron(at)Opus1(dot)COM> |
| Cc: | "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: | 2000-05-30 03:44:54 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0005300043500.608-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, 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
And, sadly, totally inaccurate *sigh* We've been working with them since
the beginning of time to get them to fix their various benchmarks for
accuracy ... we just recently had a long thread on it where one of the
guys workign witht the MySQL camp was going to push for changes ... but
even then, i believe taht there will be a helluva-lot of discrepencies :(
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