>> It (MYSQL) continues to be the RDBMS of choice for some of the big boys: >> Yahoo!, >> Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA.
> 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. Let us not mislead people with such articles. > Richard. Hmm, with such a tool as the internet, you could easily alleviate all such doubt with a simple google search. >>Kyohere Luke writes: >> It (MYSQL) continues to be the RDBMS of choice for some of the big boys: >> Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA. Let me add a few more of the 'big boys' who use mysql for 'mission critical systems': Cisco, Dunn & Bradstreet, Lufthansa, Hyperion, Alcatel, Cox Communications, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Motorola, Slash dot, and Linux Today. (might I add 'to mention but a few'?) A few URLs that could help confirm this info: http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/09/11/91120_91120.pdf http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/8851/ http://www.sitepoint.com/article/mysql-roadmap http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801,85900,00.html http://www.celestialgraphics.com/articles_open_source_print.html http://www.mysql.com/company/factsheet.html http://www.mysql.com <=(naturally?)(biased?) But then again, I did not write these articles :-) Luke. > 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------- >>> This service is hosted on the Infocom network >>> http://www.infocom.co.ug >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kyohere Luke >> Systems Engineer >> One2net (U) LTD >> >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> This service is hosted on the Infocom network >> http://www.infocom.co.ug > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > http://www.infocom.co.ug > -- Kyohere Luke Systems Engineer One2net (U) LTD --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
