Re: Which database?
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: Which database? |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 1055357206.1685.409.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Which database? (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:30, Josh Berkus wrote: > Merlin, > > > really understand. Also, they have replication and a full text > > searching suite which are nice for web apps. > > We don't have replication yet, but we do have full text searching ... in fact, > two different implementations. > > MySQL is an excellent match for Slashdot because they would rather silently > lose 5% or even 25% of comments than have the site slow down for all users. > MySQL, with its "performance over everything" design strategy, accomodates > this. > To be fair you'd have to point out they made this decision "a long time ago" back when mysql was faster than postgresql, and they could use mysql's replication feature to "scale up" to the number of users they needed to support. These days that gap is virtually nonexistent especially when you consider how much more efficient their code could be if they didn't have to write all the transaction/data-checking/table-joining logic into their code and could just let the database do it. Still I can't blame them for not wanting to rewrite their app. Along these lines, "The Register" (theregister.com) just decided to switch their site to bricolage, which is PostgreSQL based. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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