Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> And MySQL is much closer to being a competitor now than they were in
>> 4.1. And feature-wise they'll probably equal PostgreSQL in the next
>> release. Will the features be anywhere near as robust or well thought
>> out? No. But in a heck of a lot of companies that doesn't matter.
>
> Don't forget that they got nested transactions and PITR both before us.
> They will also shortly have really nice partitioning before us...
>
> ...don't underestimate their development speed.
>
Second that. In addition they have (early) in-memory multi-node
clustering and Jim Starkey is writing them a new transactional storage
engine to replace the probably-soon-to-be-license-hampered Innodb...
Cheers
Mark
