[Seaside] Magma

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Mon Nov 26 16:58:13 UTC 2007


>>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> writes:

Philippe> Makes you wonder why all the huge Web 2.0 setups (Wikipedia, flickr,
Philippe> YouTube, digg, facebook del.ico.us, [1]) and Google and Yahoo! use
Philippe> MySQL.

Legacy.  And that's now the only reason to keep using it.  PostgreSQL has
surpassed MySQL now in terms of both speed *and* feature set, not to mention
an unconfusing licensing model.

Friends don't let friends use MySQL.  Yeah, it was the only game in town at
one point, but it got too comfy, and now the market has moved on.

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