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| "Wire James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Richard
Doubt with proof. One thing though to note, adoption by the big boys
usually is something that takes a rigorous process. So their acceptance of
mySQL lends alot of credence to the product.
Wire
>> It (MYSQL) continues to be the RDBMS of choice for some of the big
>> boys: Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA.
> I highly doubt this report! If you have worked on database systems,
> there is no way you can risk mission critical systems with the 'young'
> architecture of mysql.
> Let us not mislead people with such articles.
>
> Richard.
>
> Kyohere Luke writes:
>
>> Interesting tho, that despite the latest features and emerging
>> benchmarks, mysql is still the most popular RDBMS used world-wide,
>> with <QUOTE>more than five million active installations
>> worldwide</QUOTE>
>>
>> It continues to be the RDBMS of choice for some of the big boys:
>> Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA.
>>
>> Seems that the average developer is not after features as much as he
>> is after raw speed and ease of getting the application up and running.
>> Most Popular Database?
>> http://forums.devshed.com/t42653/s.html?highlight=treeview
>> http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35171
>>
>> Also, php's popularity, as well as Apache's, has boosted mysql's with
>> such acronyms as LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP).
>>
>> However, Postgresql may benefit from mysql's latest licensing changes,
>> i.e its changes some of its libraries from LGPL to the more
>> restrictive GPL...which is causing heads to turn in the opensource
>> world, especially with PHP developers, according to Internet News:
>> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3358061
>>
>> Luke.
>>
>>> Paul Bagyenda wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://developer.postgresql.org/beta-history.txt
>>>>
>>>> The beast keeps growing. While this is just a beta at this stage,
>>>> there are a couple of things to look forward to:
>>>> - Savepoints inside transactions: So that you don't have to rollback
>>>> the entire transaction
>>>> - Point-in-time recovery: Recover to a certain point in time
>>>> - Separate disk storage using table spaces: Put one database on one
>>>> partition and another on a different one, without using symbolic
>>>> links and such.
>>>> - Change column types using ALTER TABLE: Odd one this. What happens
>>>> to the data if I change from varchar to int4??
>>>> - Server Runs on Win32: On WinNT based systems (WinNT/2000/XP) for
>>>> the first time ever. (Not sure if this should matter much, but its
>>>> been a bit of a gap!)
>>>
>>> Matters in terms of developers using it -> apps made that need it. I
>>> doubt I would use mysql if postgresql ran as well on windows as mysql
>>> does.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> All in all noteworthy improvements to what is quite a mature and
>>>> flexible RDBMS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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