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MySQL 4 - Is it Stable?

Posted by Cliff on from the RDBMS-assessments dept.

Shaklee3 asks: "I have been running version 3 of MySQL on the company's website for quite a while now. We recently ran into a problem where we needed the new features of version 4 that uses the UNION clause. We are running FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE and Apache 1.3.26. I know they reccomend not using it in a production environment yet, but from what I hear it is already being used on a few major websites. Does anyone have experience with version 4, and is it stable enough to run on a high traffic site?" If you feel MySQL isn't ready for prime-time, where specifically do you feel it needs improvement?

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  1. Easy rule.. by Karoshi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    .. if you need features that your software doesn't have, get some other software.

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  2. Re:All I want for Christmas... by m_ilya · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Still BerkleyDB is much more low level than MySQL.

    Also I heard that BerkleyDB doesn't scale for big databases. I.e. for good perfomance it must fit in RAM.

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  3. Re:All I want for Christmas... by Steveftoth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And why shouldn't MySQL be able to eventually do these things?
    For the same reasons that MySQL shouldn't also implement every feature that anyone asks for. It's not that DB. MySQL is a good db, but it cannot be everything to everyone. If you really want a feature, then just implement it, that's what open source is for. Fork the source and make your own branch. Of course most people would rather just sit back and be back seat coders (managers ;)