[NTLUG:Discuss] database(s) on Linux

[Greg Edwards]

Rev. wRy wrote:

> Greg Edwards wrote:
> 
>>> mysql's problems are well documented in comparison.
>>
>> Do you care to elaborate???
> 
> First off, let me apologize.  I like MySQL, and use it for my personal 
> stuff.  Didn't mean to imply that it's worthless, because it isn't.
> 
> For a list of problems:
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/1652243&mode=thread&tid=136
> 
> The DBA's posting in the thread seem to cover it pretty well.
> 
> Lack of transactions, views and subselects seem to be at the heart of it.
> 
> Ry
> (not a DBA)
> 


I didn't see much in the way of specific issues mentioned in these 
articles.  Personally I don't have any real issues with not having 
transactions, views, or subselects.  But then again I do mostly systems 
development and I don't want users writting SQL anyway.

I'd rather have a fast DBMS that I can build libraries to provide 
controls than the price tag that Oracle, IBM, Sybase, and Informix (now 
IBM) attach to there tools.

If Oracle, Sybase, or Informix had a reasonable price tag OSS products 
like MySQL and PostgresSQL wouldn't have a following.


-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com