Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0
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Msg-id 454275DB.6060405@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0  ("John Wang" <johncwang@gmail.com>)
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> Right now I typically look at the comparison as PostgreSQL isn't proven to
> scale as well as MySQL for Web 2.0 type community sites. It seems like all
> Alexa 100 sites that use a OSS database use MySQL (many of them on InnoDB).
> I've also seen an old eWeek performance test run where Oracle and MySQL
> compare well from a scalability perspective but MSSQL doesn't (Pg wasn't
> tested). In that case, MySQL, not Pg, was being compared against Oracle and
> MSSQL. I haven't found a single Alexa 100 site that runs PostgreSQL yet.

Uhmmm... you would be wrong :). I am looking at the Alexa 100 right now
and I see several that run PostgreSQL. Some of them are even my customers :P

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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