Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 22nd November 2007 10:53

Ben Moxon wrote:
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> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> Quoting Anthony Cartmell [EMAIL REMOVED]
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>>> Note to self: must investigate using new MySQL foreign key handling, if
>>> that's the correct term...
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>> Works pretty well. MySQL 5 is almost looking like a real database.
>> Of course, you need to put it into strict mode.
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> By the time you've put in real database features do you lose the speed
> advantage that made MySQL so successful in the first place?
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> At which point I guess Postgres could finally start getting some of
> the attention it deserves.
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> -ben
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Mysql can handle huge datasets without problem, as long as you use the
correct engine for each table and create the correct keys and indexes.
Google use MYSQL, for pete's sake. (Apologies to pete).

Tom.