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Too many people think MySQL and its limitations are representative of this technology; it isn't, not by a long way. This is about as true as it is sad, but whe
by trezor 18y ago
Too many people think MySQL and its limitations are representative of this technology; it isn't, not by a long way.
This is about as true as it is sad, but when your only exposure to relational databases is the least mature and featured one on the market, and everyone is too busy sharding and remaining oblivious about it, this is the kind of discussion you get.
- gaius 18y ago"Sharding" is shorthand for "MySQL's concurrent write performance is abysmal, let's spend more on trying to make it work than it would have cost to just buy Oracle".
- trezor 18y agoNot too mention that sharding probably is one of those things which might seem clever when your database engine doesn't even have hash joins. I mean, when your DB can't join large result-sets quickly and efficiently in process, why care about the loss of joinability when you spread your data across several servers?
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoDB2 is free up to something like eight gig of memory usage. I don't understand why people are so wedded to MySQL and Postgres now that DB2 and Oracle have free and very cheap versions.
- mattmcknight 18y agoI can't speak to DB2, but I am really sick of the weird complexity of Oracle. It's power comes at a fairly high cost of complexity, whatever the pricing structure looks like.
- fendale 18y agoIt sure is mired in complexity. I am an Oracle programmer by day and once you put it under load there are some pile of bugs that start to show up! That said, Oracle can do so e amazing work, if you have people on hand who can make it do it!