I highly doubt this report! If you have worked on database systems, there is no way you can risk mission critical systems with the 'young' architecture of mysql.It (MYSQL) continues to be the RDBMS of choice for some of the big boys: Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA.
Let us not mislead people with such articles.
Richard.
Kyohere Luke writes:
Interesting tho, that despite the latest features and emerging benchmarks,
mysql is still the most popular RDBMS used world-wide, with <QUOTE>more
than five million active installations worldwide</QUOTE>
It continues to be the RDBMS of choice for some of the big boys: Yahoo!,
Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA.
Seems that the average developer is not after features as much as he is
after raw speed and ease of getting the application up and running.
Most Popular Database?
http://forums.devshed.com/t42653/s.html?highlight=treeview
http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35171
Also, php's popularity, as well as Apache's, has boosted mysql's with such
acronyms as LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP).
However, Postgresql may benefit from mysql's latest licensing changes, i.e
its changes some of its libraries from LGPL to the more restrictive
GPL...which is causing heads to turn in the opensource world, especially
with PHP developers, according to Internet News:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3358061
Luke.
Paul Bagyenda wrote:
http://developer.postgresql.org/beta-history.txt
The beast keeps growing. While this is just a beta at this stage, there are a couple of things to look forward to: - Savepoints inside transactions: So that you don't have to rollback the entire transaction - Point-in-time recovery: Recover to a certain point in time - Separate disk storage using table spaces: Put one database on one partition and another on a different one, without using symbolic links and such. - Change column types using ALTER TABLE: Odd one this. What happens to the data if I change from varchar to int4?? - Server Runs on Win32: On WinNT based systems (WinNT/2000/XP) for the first time ever. (Not sure if this should matter much, but its been a bit of a gap!)
Matters in terms of developers using it -> apps made that need it. I
doubt I would use mysql if postgresql ran as well on windows as mysql
does.
All in all noteworthy improvements to what is quite a mature and flexible RDBMS.
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