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It's going to take a lot more than an expensive, closed source, hardware integrated, clustered database that talks the MySQL protocol to even make even a tiny d
by spudlyo 16y ago
It's going to take a lot more than an expensive, closed source, hardware integrated, clustered database that talks the MySQL protocol to even make even a tiny dent in MySQL's popularity. Outrageous headline used to draw people in to an annoying article that reads like marketing copy.
- mcav 16y agoIt's going to take ... Postgresql.
- mmt 16y ago..an oft-overlooked option, sadly That and cheaper hardware used more intelligently. Even more sadly,I have found these topics, RDBMSes and hardware, to be areas of great ignorance and, perhaps therefore, fear among software folk. More importantly, it will probably take a substantial effort to de-mystify these two.
- spudlyo 16y agoBuilt in replication is a big step towards that goal. Healthy competition between open source databases is good for everyone.