[jeffgrant]

FYI, all this talk of "this is better than this" is very subjective.

I can show you test-cases that will make any database look better than any other database.

I own a company that does high-end database design and distributed performance tuning (largest on-line banking systems in the US and Canada, government, IRS, etc), and it's all about the right tool for the right job, and the proper implementation with the right tool.

If the code is ****, it doesn't matter what DB you're using.

But yes, certain features are better implemented in some databases than others.

It's a matter of figuring out what you need and picking the right tool.

MySQL has it's good points, and it's bad points. It's probably the fastest read-only DB on the planet, other than a custom-built DB, but it suffers in other areas.


Of course, I'm a huge Oracle fanboy, but that's a whole other topic.