On 20 October 2010 16:38, Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote: >> I based this criticism partially on evidence from a friend who >> maintained LastFM's HA DB servers, and they used ubuntu for this task, >> and they had many problems with this :/ > > There's a whole world of difference between "a database server" and > the high-availability DB servers operated by a top rank website with > millions of customers * millions of records * massive update rate * > multiple application layers * multiple caching layers * who knows what > > For a start, I doubt they're using MySQL, which many people consider > to be "a database". Does that mean that MySQL should not be used "for > databases"?
Correct! In my opinion, absolutely! However, I'm in the group of people who want to know who we can sue for people calling MySQL a database. Postgresql for the win. > So if you have a specific example where "X should not be used for Y > under conditions Z" please don't make blanket statements missing out > "Z" and implying that "X should not be used for Y under any & all > circumstances". Seeing your brought up that MySQL thing. X = MySQL Y = Databases Z = You want a database. I troll a bit, but please, don't subject me to using MySQL, its horrible. :/ I would sooner use MSSQL. True story. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
