[Zope] MySQL - PostgreSQL - ZODB

[J. Atwood]

Sorry.. I didn't mean to open up a flame war of any size. Just opinion and
experience based.

J

> From: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:01:58 +0200
> To: "J. Atwood" <jatwood@bwanazulia.com>
> Cc: "Morten W. Petersen" <morten@src.no>, zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] MySQL - PostgreSQL - ZODB
> 
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:43:45AM -0400, J. Atwood wrote:
>> I think the low down is that while MySQL is very fast it is not as scalable
>> or as true a RDBMS as PostGreSQL. MS SQL 7.0 I will not comment about since
>> I would never run a production website with that product.
> 
> I guess this has the potential for a mid-sized flamewar, but also have a
> look at Ben Adida's recent article "Why Not MySQL ?"
> (http://openacs.org/why-not-mysql.html) and the ongoing discussion on
> Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/05/0920247.shtml).
> 
> Gregor
>