For what a newbies opinion may matter, I breifly worked with Oracle, and am working with MySQL. Fact, as it may be, I will never look for or take a job where they are using the P.O.S. Oracle. Oracle is not stable enough, it bombs if you make one misleading query. MySQL just says "eh, try again". Heaven forbid you want to call a memory stack in Oracle and puipe the results to the db, and if you do, you had better have all of your ducks squared away, you can ever so easily corrupt the database if you don't. Oracle doesn't have enough intuition either.
John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MySQL Power ? > I don't mean to start an opinion war, but ... > > Can MySQL handle many processors, many servers (clustering), load > ballancing, etc as well as Oracle. Or should one use Oracle (some other > database) for large volume high response requirements. Is mySQL too basic > for these capabilities? > > Pros and Cons, please. This should help settle an internal debate that is > raging! I will look forward to hearing the response of the well-informed to this. However, my impression is that while the answer, for the very highest volumes, is that Oracle is better, the point at which Oracle betters MySQL is *much* higher than doubters might think. So, if anybody give the reply that Oracle is best at the high end, please could they also try to quantify the point at which MySQL begins to run out of steam - and what it is it can't do and Oracle can at that point. (For example, MySQL can handle high read loads by use of replication, but would bottleneck on high write loads - I think). (Or have I just fallen for Oracle propaganda?) Alec Cawley --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
