Re: MySQL 5 comparison - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Well, I think those of us in the pg community would be interested in
reading it, but IMHO it's a losing proposition for SRA to push articles
that highlight the negativities of other database systems. If you're
going to go down that road you had better tread carefully; personally I
would stick to articles that highlight customer successes.

Robert Treat

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:11, Robert Bernier wrote:
> 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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