On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 19:58, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva wrote: > Hi Tarun, > Let me make it very cleat that I don't have any hunch in open source > and thats why I am in the list but my dear, facts are facts. > (Is Amazon.com running on open source (database)? Is eBay.com running on open source > (database)? Is Yahoo.com running on open source (database)? Citing now, http://www.serverworldmagazine.com/sunserver/2001/02/bigboys.shtml http://www.mysql.com/press/user_stories/yahoo_finance.html http://www.ziatg.com/Content/success_stories.htm
> Surely NO...so we would certainly be interested to know some of your > "Biggest > Internet Sites running on open source". Geocrawler use Postgres. http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=755&group_id=1 <Quote> PostgreSQL has proven itself a stable and strong-performing database solution. PostgreSQL is the database back used to power the SourceForge.net site today. </Quote> sf.net uses mysql And some of the biggest sites are the Open Source community's sites running on Open Source databases. > Kindly show us any relevant benchmark to prove your point on your "tried and tested > approach". See http://formation.espacecourbe.com/choosing/dbc_paper_opensource_database.html > And also do let us know if we can live without Foreign Keys in a relational world > (MySQL)? All that is history!! Check out the newer InnoDb support. -Tarun Dua _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
