Comment Re:I never trusted Monty in the first place (Score 2) 103
>I think his point is to say that MySQL is a full fledge SQL database is like saying IE 6 is a standards compliant web browser.
Herein lies the problem: what standards are you referring to? ACID? Mysql 5.5 in strict mode *is* ACID compliant.
>MySQL owes its success to web frameworks where better SQL servers like Postgres are considered an overkill and it works quite well in that domain.
I think you're remembering history differently than it was. MySQL was always significantly faster than Postgres, which was a slow database until relatively recently. There's a reason companies like Google chose MySQL for their adsense platform.
>If your requirements are more on the SQL-side than the web-side of the equation, you would do much better with Postgres.
Oh, absolutely. But... this comes down to a "right tool for the job" situation. The other guy that was replying to me just hates mysql and sees no use for it.