Re: comparision chart - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Johannes Grødem
Subject Re: comparision chart
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Msg-id lzn0y4r1mr.fsf@bzzzt.fix.no
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In response to Re: comparision chart  (Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@paradise.net.nz>)
Responses Re: comparision chart  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Re: comparision chart  (Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>)
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* Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@paradise.net.nz>:

> Widely used as a very fast read only database. Backs _many_ web sites.
> Locking at the table level only, thus update of the database best done when 
> effectively in single-user-mode. Transactions implemented using external 
> methods.

The version with InnoDB has row-level locking and transactions.  (And
is supposedly very fast, unlike the BDB-tables.)

http://www.innodb.com/

-- 
johs


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