Re: MySQL 5 comparison

Guys,

I sent an email to Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at> and asked if he
could give me particulars about the bench marking he did. Could I have some
comments about the idea of making a more structured presentation in an
article, in the next SRA newsletter, http://sraapowergres.com ?


On January 6, 2005 08:45 am, you wrote:
> > Has anyone spent any time with the MySQL 5.0 alpha, set to go into
>
> beta
>
> > shortly
>
> (http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/04/HNmysql5beta_1.html)?
>
> > Would be interesting to have a rudimentary comparison checklist - not
>
> so
>
> > much benchmarks, as features, as they seem to have added a lot.  And
>
> any
>
> > info on how they've implemented these features (e.g. multiple table
>
> types
>
> > in order to use different features, etc.) would be of interest.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ned
>
> Putting my advocacy hat on,
> If you look at their description of the upcoming features, it's
> saturated with words like 'basic', 'initial', and 'rudimentary'.  I
> don't think mysql 5.0 will be a watershed moment where it will become
> the database of choice for industrial application development...
>
> The new stuff on a point by point feature comparison may look
> impressive, but they need to work on internal stuff like the locking
> engine, get some real logging etc.
>
> On a more even handed note, it's nice to see them get some real
> features.  Open source success stories are not zero-sum, so what's good
> for them is not necessarily bad for us.  Competition is good, but pg is
> at least 3 years ahead of them in development!
>
> Merlin
>
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