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| Newer page: | version 16 | Last edited on Friday, October 22, 2004 10:18:45 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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-[MySQL] is devil spawn, it's
a horrible piece
of badly written software. Some people call it
a Relational DBMS, it's nothing more than a glorified flat file database with an SQL interface
. When
it's running properly it's fast, but at the expense of any feature anyone would find useful (Think transactions, as one example). It sucks at large joins and has trouble handling tables with a few million rows in them
.
+[MySQL | http://www.mysql.com/
] is a PostRelationalDataBase management system. It is the canonical example
of a successful commercial OpenSource product
. This has been attributed primarily to the fact that
it's DualLicensed
.
-If you want
a __database__ and a relational one
at that, use
[PostgreSQL
]. You'll love yourself forever if you do
.
+Some also say it is devil spawn or
a horrible piece of badly written software. It's very fast
at low loads because it's hardly more than a glorified flat file database with an
[SQL
] interface, but that comes at the expense of any feature anyone would find useful (transactions, as one example)
. It sucks at large joins and has trouble handling tables with a few million rows in them
.
-__WARNING__: DO NOT USE MYSQL
'S RAND() FUNCTION IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO DISAPPEAR
+If you want a relational DataBase, use [PostgreSQL]. You
'll love yourself forever if you do.
-__WARNING__: DO NOT LET MYSQL'S PARTITION FULL UP
, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
+See also [PostgreSQL]
, PostgresVsMysql, [DB2], [Oracle]
-__WARNING__: DO NOT USE MYSQL UNDER LOAD, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
+----
-__WARNING
__: DON'T LOOK AT THE MYSQL SERVER IN THE WRONG TONE OF VOICE, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
+> For a large portion of the new markets being created by [MySQL], this advantage ''~[easy to install while reasonably useful, Ed.]'' matters a lot more than missing features and poor [ACID] semantics. If this shocks you, then remember that [MySQL] is used for the InterNet-enabled version of what people used to use MS Access for. Compare [MySQL] to MicrosoftAccess on technical grounds -- who wins?
+-- ''Ben Tilly'' in [20040629182643.8C4E33AA2A1@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com | http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?mss:9222]
+
+----
+
+ ''Loud jarring chord!''
+
+ ''The door flies open and BillGates of [Microsoft] enters, flanked by two junior cardinals. Steve Ballmer has goggles pushed over his forehead. Sam Palmisano ([IBM]) is just an idiot.''
+
+
__GATES
__: ''Nobody'' expects the [InfoWorld Article | http://infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/09/23/020923pldman.xml]! The chief thing missing from [MySQL] is subselects...subselects and views...views and subselects.... The two things missing are views and subselects...and triggers.... The ''three'' things missing are views, subselects and triggers...and an almost fanatical devotion to row-level transactions.... The ''four''... no... ''Amongst'' the things missing from MySQL ...are such elements as views, subselects.... I'll come in again.
+
+ ''Exit and exeunt''
+
+----
+
+<br> __When should I use [MySQL]?__ :
+ When your primary concern is the speed of simple <tt>SELECT</tt> queries for few concurrent users. Even then [PostgreSQL] is getting much quicker at these.
+<br> __When should I not use [MySQL]?__ :
+ When you think "It's only going to ever be a small web site...", and there's a chance it could grow into a big one. If at any point you think you might need to change to something else, start with that other system instead.
+<br> __How can I lessen the impact of having to switch later on?__ :
+ Use PearDB in your [PHP] scripts, or DBI in your [Perl] scripts.
+
+----
+
+!!! WARNING
+
+* DO NOT USE MYSQL'S <tt>RAND()</tt> FUNCTION, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO DISAPPEAR
+* DO NOT LET MYSQL'S PARTITION FULL UP, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
+* DO NOT USE MYSQL UNDER LOAD, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
+*
DON'T LOOK AT THE MYSQL SERVER IN THE WRONG TONE OF VOICE, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
