Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 23, 2004 05:14 PM
Interesting that Marten Mickos says "Two years ago, people said MySQL was a toy. Now, apparently everyone wants to be a toy!" when two years ago you had to use the very latest release of MySQL (4.0 at the time) if you wanted some of the fundamental features of enterprise databases such as;
I think it's more a case of MySQL has opened some doors that PostgreSQL didn't and thus the pair of them have shown commercial vendors that many open source databases can now compete on their terms.
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Two years ago MySQL WAS a toy
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 23, 2004 05:14 PM- Transactions
- Multi-table deletes
- Automatic Crash Recovery
- Referental Integrity
- Row level locking
- Secure connection between database and client (using SSL)
- Query Caching
- Unions
I think it's more a case of MySQL has opened some doors that PostgreSQL didn't and thus the pair of them have shown commercial vendors that many open source databases can now compete on their terms.
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