Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> Ron Chmara wrote:
> > "Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> > > MySQL is great for small websites with small budgets with read-only data
> > > or data that doesn't change often. It doesn't scale very well at all, and
> > > for larger sites it really falls apart without anyy referential integrity
> > > or supprto for views. But beyond that, you really need something bigger
> > > like Postgres (for a big site with a small budget) or Oracle (for a huge
> > > site with a huger budget).
> >
> > Have a db comparison toy. Lots of fun.
> >
> > http://mysql.com/crash-me-choose.htmy
>
> There was some discussion about exactly that crashme this
> month. Some detailed analysis turned out that many places
> where it says "unsupported" in reality mean "does not support
> MySQL's non standard syntax". Others are totally mislabeled.
>
> And on the performance, it triggered a problem in PostgreSQL
> that is unlikely in real world scenarios (creating and
> dropping 20,000 tables first, blowing up a system catalog).
> Then running the test queries with the blown up catalog.
> Really smart benchmark :-)
Well it *is* called crashme.