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Some of the folks at Slashdot seem to take issue with MySQL's license:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/04/1730225 (Something else
one might want to consider, before starting a project using one or the
other...)
Thank you, Jerry Davis, for originally bringing that article to our attention.
-Erik
On 9/14/05, Simon Chatfield <
sjchatfield@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I really like Postgres and have used it in many large
> scale applications with (knock on wood) no real
> failures. I haven't used any of the clustering it now
> supports, but will be doing so soon. I think MySQL is
> faster in some cases, but Postgres has a stronger
> transaction basis which is more important for my
> applications.
>
> --- Micah DesJardins <micahdj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Whoops! I meant to yank that from the end :P
> >
> > MySQL is making a lot of headway in terms of
> > features, but I have to say as
> > far as depth of features, and flexibility on the
> > back-end I really like
> > PgSQL. It has its quirks, but every DB does and for
> > some reason I seem to
> > "grok" it in a more natural way than MySQL. As far
> > as performance, it's hard
> > for me to say. I'd be willing to bet it doesn't do
> > straight table lookups as
> > fast as MySQL, but that's not generally what I'm
> > looking for. I haven't
> > rolled it out in any big implementations yet, but
> > I'm working on some proof
> > of concept stuff at the moment and with luck I can
> > get a decent
> > implementation going within the next year. I did a
> > little poking around and
> > once I saw the list of people and organizations
> > using it for their back-end
> > I was pretty solid on it.
> >
> > MDJ
> >
> > On 9/14/05, Alex Dean <alex@crackpot.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Micah DesJardins wrote:
> > >
> > > > Interests include: Apache, PgSQL, PHP, Ruby,
> > Perl, PgSQL.
> > >
> > > Hey, do you like PgSQL? ;) Just kidding. I picked
> > up a book about it
> > > recently, and I have to say I'm really liking it
> > as well. Soooo many
> > > more features than MySQL.
> > >
> > > alex
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