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Re: postgresql vs mysql

  • From: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • To: "Jim Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
  • Cc: "Brandon Aiken" <BAiken(at)winemantech(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: postgresql vs mysql
  • Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:49:06 +1300
  • Message-id: <b35603930702221649j120a62faj229b3576ca8b9cbc(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:

That depends greatly on what you're doing with it. Generally, as soon
as you start throwing a multi-user workload at it, MySQL stops
scaling. http://tweakers.net recently did a study on that.

I think I recall that wikipedia uses MySQL ... they get quite a few
hits, too, I believe.


Cheers,
Andrej
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