OC-PM: MySQL and other DBs

[Wilson, Douglas]

I'm still playing catch up to finding out where MySQL is at lately.
Looks like they do (or are about to) support alot more features (partly
by using InnoDB as at least part of the backend :-)

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=ZDx59.195%2
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On Friday, December 06, 2002 10:30 AM, Wilson, Douglas
[SMTP:dgwilson at sonomasystems.net] wrote:
> 
> 
> Some interesting reads on MySQL vs. other Databases. This
> one is slightly outdated (its been in 'to be updated' mode for
> awhile now):
> http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html
> 
> And this is an interesting thread on the subject. InnoDB sounds like
> its worth looking at (as well as PostgreSQL):
> http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=20355
> 
> Though MySQL is still probably the perfect solution for something
> like what Oakley is doing, i.e., creating a database index to their XML
> product catalog, it looks like its still not the answer to all database
> problems.
> 
> -Doug