Oracle-L: RE: MySQL versus Oracle

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 07:18:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00470D75.20020531071825@fatcity.com>

We use both here, use'em as back-end databases for our hosted web sites.

MySQL is fast, easy to set up and maintain, and free. Works great for our small and medium-sized web sites. But, it doesn't scale as well as Oracle and we've had better luck using Oracle with our large, active sites. MySQL with MyISAM table types has table-level locking only, and a large number of concurrent selects can slow things down tremendously.

IMHO, maintaining a MySQL database is more of a SysAdmin job than a DBA job, and I don't think you'll have much of a problem with the transition.

We recently finished up some benchmarking, using Oracle and MySQL with MyISAM and InnoDB table types. I can send you the test report if you'd like.

I personally think MySQL has a bright future, and when 4.1 comes out (not expected for a year or so) it could start making a real dent in the database market. It has certainly helped us here; we've been able to keep our Oracle licensing costs to a minimum by using MySQL for the majority of our sites.

If you'd like more information, Joe, email me directly.

--Walt Weaver

Bozeman, Montana

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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:39 AM
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Anyone on the list done a comparison(or worked with both) MySQL and Oracle and can give me the good/bad points of My SQL?

Doing interviewer thing and someone has My SQL who would like to move into the oracle world and i know nothing about mySQL and am wondering if the transition from one to the other is easily done.

thanks, joe

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