On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:05:21PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
So in my opinion, as long as the general awareness about RDBMS (on what tasks/responsibilities it should do, what features it generally has to have, etc) is low, people will be looking at MySQL as "good enough" and will not be motivated to look around for something better. As a comparison, I'm always amazed by people who use Windows 95/98/Me. They find it normal/"good enough" that the system crashes every now and then, has to be rebooted every few hours (or every time they install something). They don't know of anything better.
Agree. People don't know that an RDBMS can be more better.
A lot of users think speed is the most important thing. And they check the performance of SQL server by "time mysql -e "SELECT..." but they don't know something about concurrency or locking.
Even worse: They benchmark "SELECT 1+1" one million times.
The performance of "SELECT 1+1" has NOTHING to do with the REAL performance of a database.
Has anybody seen the benchmarks on MySQL??? They have benchmarked "CREATE TABLE" and so forth. This is the most useless thing I have ever seen.
It is so annoying _ I had to post it ;).
Regards,
Hans
BTW, is the current MySQL target (replication, transactions, ..etc) what typical MySQL users expect? I think they will lost users who love classic, fast and simple MySQL. The trade with advanced SQL servers is pretty full. I don't understand why MySQL developers want to leave their current possition and want to fight with PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 .. etc.
Karel
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