[ale] RedHat Dabase 2.0

[Benjamin Scherrey]

MySQL is not really an RDBMS. That said - recent versions have had all kinds of things added to it 
to provide better transaction handling and such but they aren't integral with the architecture. 
MySQL is a fine product for fast-loading, read-mostly databases (typical of many web-based apps 
which it often appears). If you're updating data very much then you start working around the 
product instead of within it - not a situation you wanna be in if you can avoid it. Multi-user and highly 
transactional apps are still best avoided with MySQL in my experience. FWIW - Postgres is just as 
simple to setup and will scale better for these applications. It also integrates cleaner with other 
tools/languages including C++, java, and python.

	best regards,

		Ben Scherrey

10/30/2002 3:14:16 PM, "John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:

>How does Postgres compare with MySql?  I believe it support stored
>procedures, but other than that I'm unaware of what features it may have
>the make a good choice.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John





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