[Gllug] MySQL Bashing - was very very cheap hosting

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> Honestly, Ive been using mysql for about 3 years, it is fast, reliable, quick
> to install and easy to backup. Once more it is GPL. 
> 
> I've also found that its a very good tool when introducing people to building
> thier first applications from source.
> 
> I havent heard of any earth shattering events that were caused by a mysql
> failure, I accept that things like postgres or oracle might be 'better' but I
> dont see why mysql is so 'bad' that people would avoid it like they avoid
> windows hosting.

Its the little differences...

  http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html

Oh and all the big differences...ANSI SQL compliance for example. 
Not to mention the continuing changes of heart over licensing. I've
actually noticed that in reviewing 8.0 beta, analysts have started
to say that MySQL has a significant catch-up to do now.

Dan.
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