Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:

The question is: Which DBMS do you think is the best for this kind of
application? PostgreSQL or MySQL?

As you can imagine, PostgreSQL.

My main reasons are that in a proper transactional environment (ie
you're not using scary MyISAM tables) Pg is *much* better about handling
concurrent load, particularly concurrent activity by readers and writers.

Actually, following this comment it should be noted that if you were to choose MySQL you'd pretty much be making a decision to *not* be using transactions at all.  The reason for this is that while InnoDB does support MySQL's geometry data types it does *not* support indexes on geometry columns, only MyISAM does which does not support transactions.  Call me old fashioned if you like, but I like my data to have integrity ;)

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