----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Schaefer" <Ken at adOpenStatic.com> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 5:51 AM Subject: RE: RE: [thelist] Help with Database ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist- : bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Mark Groen : Subject: Re: RE: [thelist] Help with Database : : scalability and robustness you need, and how you use it are your prime : considerations. mySQL is simply not in the same league as SQL Server or : Oracle : : Yup, good example here of the differences: : : http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.html : : cheers, : : Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interesting document. It doesn't list support for High Availability (HA) though, which is certainly a requirement for enterprise use. Both Oracle and SQL Server support clustering, and replication between geographically dispersed servers. I'm not aware of native clustering support in mySQL. sorry, with all that forget to include the whitepaper link if the original post was about more massive needs: http://whitepapers.businessweek.com/plist/Cluster-Software.html cheers, Mark