On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:04:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am still in the early stages of developing my first SQL
> application, and I have chosen MySQL because I only need very
> straightforward facilities, but I really want reliability, including
> particularly Replication. I am currently doing all my development
> using Windows hosts because that is what I have to hand.
> However, when the product eventually ships, the database will be
> running on twin x86 boxes bought for the purpose. The choice of OS
> for the client is therefore open. Management here will want to use
> Win2K, simply because other projects here use it (which is not a bad
> reason) and because of Linux FUD (which is a bad reason). I have a
> feeling that Linux is likely to be faster, and that writing scripts
> for backup,for master/slave failover and restart etc. is likely to
> be easier under Linux.
Trust your feelings. :-)
> The former is not desperately important - compared to some of the
> databases people discuss round here, my database will be tiny (but
> we can always find a use for more performance). The second, however,
> is significant; reliability (both real and perceived) is important
> to me.
Linux is very reliable. MySQL on Linux is very reliable (and fast).
> Does anybody have any comparative experience of handing failover of
> MySQL under Win2K and Linux, which they could share? Or even any
> opinions?
Some of the MySQL developers have mentioned that they see measurable
speed differences between MySQL on Linux (or other Unix-like systems)
and Windows. Windows is almost always the slower of the group.
Jeremy
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