> MySQL doesn't claim to be ACID
Here's a quote from the 4.0 manual about current features:
"The table handler InnoDB is now offered as a feature of the standard MySQL
server, including full support for transactions and row-level locking."
InnoDB is also available starting with version 3.23.5.
Here's a quote regarding future 4.1 features:
"Mission-critical, heavy-load users of MySQL will appreciate the additions
to our replication system and our online hot backup. Later versions of 4.0
will include fail-safe replication; already in existing 4.0.0, the LOAD DATA
FROM MASTER command will soon automate slave setup. The online backup will
make it easy to add a new replication slave without taking down the master,
and have a very low performance penalty on update-heavy systems."
Mene, mene, tekel, ufarsin... (?)
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-- "Weaver, Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/31/02 13:59:22 -0800
> If there's only one user accessing it, yes.
>
> --Walt
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> a) It's blindingly fast as a single user database, faster then oracle.
>
> Really? Even with a 30 million record table?
Depends on what they are doing. MySQL doesn't claim to be
ACID, just fast. If multiple users are reading a table
that isn't configured for locks then it could be faster
than Oracle. The overhead and complexity introducted into
Oracle by rollback handling is a major slowdown for anythng
the database does.
This is mainly a matter of applying a tool in the way it was
designed to be used. MySQL is intended for primarily read-
access databases or smaller ones where the less granular
locking is not so much of a problem.
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