Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation - Oracle development

2002-05-03 Thread amit soni
Doesnt oracle9i come with a minimum 5 pooter license these days ? Perhaps they realised, nobody will buy oracle for a single PC. Oracle 8i 9i is a free download for non commercial use and evaluation. and it is not time bound as well. So you can have your personal benchmarks and then

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-03 Thread Ambar Roy
Boss, how about writing in English for a change? I must confess that I skip over all your posts because they're impossible to read even though you appear to be talking useful stuff. Ambar I was under the impression that I was writing in some Ambar english

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread Ambar Roy
Boss, how about writing in English for a change? I must confess that I skip over all your posts because they're impossible to read even though you appear to be talking useful stuff. I was under the impression that I was writing in some english dialect! Can you please tell me how I can

RE: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 01:32 PM 5/2/2002, you wrote: I don't see where this discussion is headed. The basic difference between Oracle and mySQL would be in the area of Query Optimization. Probably, this snipped And probably, that is why Oracle costs money. mySQL is a good database for small applications. Before

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation - net slang

2002-05-02 Thread amit soni
In next Linux meet, a force graduation for Raju on Internet shortcut ***lingo***. Ambar procedures :) There are lots of other reasons.. (like for Ambar e.q. i might be getting Oracle for free, or your dba knows Ambar only oracle , etc) Boss, how about writing in English for a

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread amit soni
with no vendor input. Damn its almost the whole thing i pasted in here ! So... ahem .does everyone like MySQL now ? regards, Amit. - Original Message - From: Vipul Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: MySQL

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread amit soni
Can some one tell me the exact cost of oracle on Linux? Should be close to $30,000. Approximatly the amount in which you could buy 5 servers and hire raju for 30 minutes to setup load balancing and fine tune all the servers. ;o) To

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread Raju Mathur
Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boss, how about writing in English for a change? I must confess that I skip over all your posts because they're impossible to read even though you appear to be talking useful stuff. Ambar I was under the impression that I

Re: Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread Raju Mathur
Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It Looks that most of the people are ignoring a very important that it is Ambar the amount of I/O with a DBMS is doing. If for the same Ambar type of repeated operations i.e. adding of UNIQUE records Ambar to a table with few

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread Raju Mathur
amit == amit soni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can some one tell me the exact cost of oracle on Linux? amit Should be close to $30,000. amit Approximatly the amount in which you could buy 5 servers and amit hire raju for 30 minutes to setup load balancing and fine amit tune

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation - Oracle development + raju on hire.

2002-05-02 Thread amit soni
Can some one tell me the exact cost of oracle on Linux? amit Should be close to $30,000. amit Approximatly the amount in which you could buy 5 servers and amit hire raju for 30 minutes to setup load balancing and fine amit tune all the servers. ;o) I object -- that's

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation - PHP

2002-05-01 Thread amit soni
Leo transactions. Though, I do hear that MySQL has been deployed Leo at a few centres with prominent names. Essentials like Leo transaction support, stored procedures and the like were not Leo there in earlier versions and while some things are changing Leo in the new

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation - PostGRE

2002-05-01 Thread amit soni
I would say that if one is looking for complexity and scalability of RDBMS in the open source world, Postgres is a good choice. Though I am not too confortable with the pace of it's development. ~ Exactly ! I am sure when enough experiments are

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Lokesh Bhog
I feel that mysql is a very good database. If it is free and so good why compare with something that costs money. With small size of data its performance is great. One thing that i wonder is if I have the same amount of data say 2GB would there be significant difference in performance in mysql or

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Lokesh Bhog
What could be the reason for oracle doing better that mysql with the same load and same hardware? Did you change the logic of your program and changed the specification in oracle? Or is it that the logic used by oracle to manage data is better than mysql? BTW what is the cost of oracle on

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Kapil Sethi
What could be the reason for oracle doing better that mysql with the same load and same hardware? Or is it that the logic used by oracle to manage data is better than mysql? I think Oracle has a better memory management, data management, and caching system than mysql. Did you change the

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Ambar Roy
MySQL uses the simplest and most straight forward thread controls. It has to be faster ! Oracle should be slower!! Oracle has probally 2000 extra things to protect oracle from crashing, and its programs are much larger than MySQL, since it is supposed to support too many things, and

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Ambar Roy
What does top show on both the computer in similar load condition. That is what needs to be checked i guess. my experience with heavily loaded linux server tells me that never use top on any server that is heavily loaded. top tends to eat up a lot of resources :( Bye, /\ |\/| |3 /\ r

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-04-30 Thread Leo Fernandez
Raj, The write-up on MySQL though a bit dated does raise well-known issues. I have always failed to get any impression that MySQL was designed for high-end, large enterprise-level mission-critical database management applications with potentially hundreds and thousands of simultaneous