At 1:51 AM -0500 12/28/01, Edmund Lian wrote: >What I thought, but I was trying very hard to avoid a flamefest on the >list! Oh well, you had the balls and I didn't! :-)
hmmm, I didn't really mean to sound quite so contentious. I don't really have anything against MySQL, but would describe it more by what it can't do than what it can do. I think it's appropriate for use in a purely data retrieval role (i.e., something like the dictionary I set up at http://internet-voyager.com/dictionary.html), but you could do pretty much the same thing with a python shelve and avoid the overhead of MySQL. I wouldn't think that MySQL would be a very good choice for anything involving substantial interactivity like a shopping cart. >BTW, PostgreSQL may not scale to the degree that Oracle does, but it really >performs better than Oracle in situations other than the Ultimate Ellison >Dream, which is the 80-90% of the realworld. I'm sure you know this link >already, but here's a benchmark (yes, there are lies and then there are >benchmarks!): >http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-08-14-008-01-PR-MR-SW Thanks. I hadn't seen this one. Some of it sounds a little bogus- I doubt if everyone would agree that using ODBC across the board in lieu of native interfaces really proves very much. Nonetheless, I would certainly accept the general proposition that Postgres is competitvie with M$SQL and Oracle for most purposes while MySQL is not. Later. Richard Gordon -------------------- Gordon Design Web Design/Database Development http://www.richardgordon.net _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
