Without trying to sound like a troll or a rant I'd like to chime in on the side of Jeremy.
I've worked with MySQL on sites that serve up over a million hits a day. We hit the 2gb file limit in Linux (NOT a MySQL problem) and moved to Solaris without incident. A friend of mine had over a billion rows in a few of this tables (statistical data mostly). As Jeremy points out all DB's have their problems, shortcomings, etc. If you have specific complaints fill out a feature request, if you've got problems fill out a bug report, but don't knock MySQL as not-worthy-of-enterprise-status because it doesn't *work* like Oracle, etc. Overall, in my many experiences, it is more than sufficient for web apps. --Joe -- Joe Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.joestump.net -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:09 AM To: Michael She Cc: Qunfeng Dong; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can MySQL handle 120 million records? On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:37:07AM -0500, Michael She wrote: > > I agree. MySQL is a great database, but I wouldn't call it > enterprise grade. Since you haven't told us what "enterprise grade" means to you, that doesn't tell us much. What is it lacking to become "enterprise grade" in your mind? > Considering that the database is used to store billing > information... one has to be weary about losing all the records due > to a bug or deficiency in MySQL. That's true of any database server, right? It's not really a MySQL-specific complaint. > I was searching through some of the MySQL help documentation, and > there have been more than a few examples in the comments where > people have lost data due to wacky functions on databases greater > than a couple of GBs... Imagine what you'd read it Oracle was open enough to allow comments in their on-line docs. Seriously. I've heard pretty nasty stories about Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and so on. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 3 days, processed 136,618,914 queries (457/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
