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MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tradeoffs dept.

Disoculated writes "Is MySQL a threat to bigwigs? is the question asked in CNN's technology section. The article notes that MySQL is running perhaps 20% of the web databases but its revenue is merely 0.02%... yet the company is still making money and putting out an excellent product. Is this a sign that the database market is in for a drastic change? Of course, there's no mention of PostgreSQL or mSQL, but I guess that's typical."

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  1. Hardforum by BHearsum · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but about a year and half ago a big gaming/computer forum was running MySQL with vBulletin as the frontend. Horrible permorance. They had top-end Xeon servers dedicated completely to MySQL, and they still had about an hour of downtime everyday. I'm not sure if this true all the time, but in this case, MySQL could not handle heavy loads. They had to end up taking out there 'General Mayhem' forum, where more than half the traffic was.