On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Michael wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, John Armstrong wrote:
> > > Hello all-
> > > I just got the word from down high that VC's will freak out
> > > if they see we are using mysql and now we are looking at an Oracle
> > > solution.
> > >
> > > The product is a mid level mod perl application that will
> > > receive ~500,000 hits a day. I want to engineer it to withstand up to
> > > 2 million hits per day ( not unique users ). Does anyone have good
> > > or bad stories about using Oracle with mod_perl/DBI/Apache::DBI? I
> > > would love to hear both sides of the coin. I personally think Oracle
> > > is overkill but I don't have any major issues with it.
> >
> > Depends what the business is. If it is a serious business looking
> > for VC I would actually suspect the inverse is true: MySQL is
> > underkill (I think I just made that word up) due to its lack of
> > transactions and other advanced features (yes, these things do mean
> > something in the real world).
>
> So what's wrong with Postgres ??
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nothing except speed. Postgres is great for free projects, and its MVCC is
a cool technology in a free database.
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