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On Wednesday 16 October 2002 03:21, Guy Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:00, Kevin Anderson wrote:
> > MySQL is like MS Access. It's an OK database, but it doesn't scale
> > nearly as far as PostgreSQL.
>
> I don't think a comparision to MS Access is very fair.
it is in as much as MS Access lacks many features an often gets pushed into
roles it shouldn't be in =)
> Perhaps MySQL
> doesn't scale as far as PostgreSQL. I don't know as I've never tried
> it.
it isn't just about scaling, it's about having proper tools for the job.
> I do know that MySQL easily handles 200 GB of data for our main web app
> at work,
that's a decent sized db. if you don't mind me asking: what sort of data is it
(e.g. mostly text, numeric...)? ... ave field / record / table size? what
sort of queries (e.g. ave # of fields in wheres, tables joined per query,
etc)? what's the transaction rate on it?
this is truly useful information when helping people choose Free systems... =)
> We could probably have used PostgreSQL as well. They're both good tools
> for the majority of database tasks.
lots of people run windows as a web server too. there is a difference between
"can be made to", "good enough" and "good"
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Aaron J. Seigo
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