Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe"

Well, in all fairness, MySQL probably gives the right answer most of the time, 
always really fast (except for some use cases).

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane  writes:
>
> Tom> 	* Change to use no page locks for table scanning operations.
> Tom> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that sure sounds like they intend to
> Tom> dumb down BDB so that it no longer works well in concurrent situations,
> Tom> in order to save a few cycles in single-user scenarios.  Have MySQL
> Tom> officially abandoned the multi-user case to us?
>
> What they lose in usability, they gain back in benchmarks, and that's
> all that matters: getting the wrong answer really fast.
>
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