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MySQL: A threat to bigwigs?

Open-source database has dazzling opportunities ahead

By David Kirkpatrick
FORTUNE.COM
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Posted: 4:13 PM EST (2113 GMT


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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html





Orlando Andico wrote:

I think the 'raw partitions' thing is a canard.

Oracle9i works on filesystems too, and in fact this is now the 
recommended default -- I feel *better* at seeing those files on the 
filesystem (which I can backup with tar) than having everything on this 
impenetrable partition.

Anyway, yes InnoDB lets you commit/rollback -- however it doesn't improve 
concurrency (multiuser) performance in a high-write regime very much. 
MySQL was always good for fast queries on a mostly read-only database.


On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Hagibis Fan wrote:
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thanks for the link...I think they have something
about transactions now though (they have this
thing called "innodb" which supposedly supports
transaction processing).  No idea if they implement 
referential integrity now.  I'm pretty sure
they are strictly file-based (as opposed
to other databases  which can operate on raw
partitions) which scares me a bit.  I'm just
hoping for the future, I'm trying to figure
if maybe they'll become big later.