Recent versions of Postgresql (the last year or two) have matched, if not exceeded MySQL in terms of speed.
To directly answer the original question, there a probably literally millions of Linux systems in the world running MySQL, to the point where "LAMP" has become a recognizable name in the field: Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. Set it up, test it well for your application, and I think you'll be pleased with it. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbee question On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:09:12AM -0500, Hahne, Ronald wrote: > We are about to set up our environment utilizing the Linux-399 environment. > We currently are using Microsoft sql database on windows platforms. We would > like to move off it and onto a Linux sql database. Does anyone have any > experience using a Linux platform sql database other than interfacing with > DB2 or Oracle? The database is used for meta-data and transaction processing > is not a requirement. If you're not doing transaction processing, MySQL is probably your best bet. I find that Postgres *does* do transaction processing quite well, but it at least used to be slower than MySQL. Adam
