Re: MySQL 5 comparison - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Good point, but hard, solid, dependable information that is well presented is
something you can't just ignore. I would like to go down this road a little
farther and then look at the final product before deciding to publish or not.


On January 6, 2005 09:40 am, Robert Treat wrote:
> 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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