Re: DB app recommendations?

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Quoting David Neeley <dbneeley -at- oddpost -dot- com>:

 
> As my sources tell me, the speed issue depends more on how they are coded and
> what they're doing. In fact, *speed* was why Yahoo! selected MySQL
> originally, they tell me. 

My original comments were based on a private comparative study in which MySQL 
and Oracle were used for the same data and the same functions. However, now 
that you mention it, I doubt that the same care was taken to code MySQL in the 
study. I also suspect a bias towards Oracle by the tester. So, there's a strong 
possibility that my generality was invalid; as I said, I'm no expert.

However, even if it holds, the difference was not so great that I'd advise 
anyone to avoid MySQL. There are other reasons that would make MySQL a very 
attractive alternative.

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Bruce Byfield bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604-421.7177

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