A bicycle won't get you faster than a Benz S500 if you're needed 15 minutes from now and you're about to travel on a highway. Similarly, using MySQL to compute your 3-dimensional report (like a sales report that spans multiple years) via OLTP is just begging for pain.
It's naive (and sometimes fatal) for a business not to use the right tool for the job. Comparing MySQL and Oracle is like comparing apples and oranges. MySQL has a long way to go (way too long) to even match Oracle's current capabilities, given that Oracle has a decade+ head start, and they do know what they're doing in the RDBMS realm, among others (not to mention scaling horizontally and vertically). But if you don't need Oracle's bloat and MySQL's current features suits you fine, or perhaps you have special needs that Oracle's DB won't fit, then go use MySQL. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:49 PM, joebert jacaba <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's like a bicycle and a Benz S500. If you just want to get from A to >> B and don't mind sweating, go for the bicycle (or do open source). >> Feature sets are so far apart that a real technical comparison is >> meaningless. > > A bicycle doesn't emit gases harmful to the environment. It is not > just sweat but a whole lot of health benefits as well. It is much much > cheaper and can go to any point A to any point B as well. Maybe a lot > slower but with more practice can go faster. Much faster on traffic > jams as well and can pass single tracks and more roads not passable or > not economical for a car, much more a Benz, can pass. > > It's a philosophy not end (or money) justfies the means thing. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
