>I have used MySQL and Oracle and I have found MySQL to be more reliable, more performant, easier to configure, and easier to develop against. Then you're simp

>I have used MySQL and Oracle and I have found MySQL to be more reliable, more performant, easier to configure, and easier to develop against. Then you're simply not an enterprise level developer. Oracle is, to this day, one of the most powerful databases out there. Granted, they have absolutely awful interface tools (which is why most people are reduced to using a buggy 3rd party app to do common DB work on Oracle), but the Database itself is world class. MySQL isn't really a competitor. It competes better with things like SQLight.