Comment Re:Oracle is a great database (Score 1) 330
> MySQL is largely playing catchup.
Mod parent up! I currently use all 3 (Oracle10,Postgres8,MySQL5) on several projects.
For basic (low-complexity, low-traffic) webapps, MySQL is perfectly fine.
For unlimited budgets or >5-nines uptime, Oracle please.
Everything else (most enterprise projects I have seen) would do
well on Postgres.
Mod parent up! I currently use all 3 (Oracle10,Postgres8,MySQL5) on several projects.
For basic (low-complexity, low-traffic) webapps, MySQL is perfectly fine.
For unlimited budgets or >5-nines uptime, Oracle please.
Everything else (most enterprise projects I have seen) would do
well on Postgres.
