Ahh. I see the point more clearly now. Perhaps the best strategy for
me is to press on with Postgres until the project is at a profitable
enough stage to merit a migration to Oracle - should Postgres become
an issue. I feel more confident about being able to migrate from
Postgres than from MySQL. I am financing this myself. hence the
apprehension about the cost. Is there another contender I should think
about.
On 4/30/06, Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net> wrote:
> Tony Lausin wrote:
> >> [ rotfl... ] MySQL will fall over under any heavy concurrent-write
> >> scenario. It's conceivable that PG won't do what you need either,
> >> but if not I'm afraid you're going to be forced into Oracle or one
> >> of the other serious-money DBs.
> >>
> > That's a scary idea - being forced into Oracle or Sybase. Isn't
> > Slashdot.org still running strongly off of MySQL?
>
> Yes Slashdot runs MySQL, however what Tom said was that MySQL will fall
> over under any heavy *concurrent-write* scenario. Concurrent-write is
> the operative word in that sentence. Slashdot by it's very nature reads
> from the database far far more than it writes. The only writes to the
> database are things like a new story and user submitted comments, both
> of with are small in comparison to the number of reads from the database.
>
> Matt
>