Re: postgresql vs mysql

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> 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.

And outages if you watch :)

Joshua D. Drake

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> Cheers,
> Andrej
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