MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 7, 2005 @01:03AM from the where's-the-blue-boxes dept.

Rob wrote to mention an article discussing MySQL's intent to become 'the Ikea of databases'. From the piece: "While new entrants into the open source database market, such as EnterpriseDB and Pervasive Software, have made no secret of their intentions to chase Oracle's market share, Mr Mickos said MySQL is happy to leave them to it. 'We are thankful that they are there to define the market, there is no product if you're the only vendor,' he said. "Pervasive and EnterpriseDB are going up against Oracle. We don't want to be in that space, we don't want to take the heat from Oracle. If you're working in a zoo you don't want to be the one who has to brush the teeth of the lion.'"

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PostgreSQL and 200K hits per day by tcopeland · 2005-10-07 01:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've been using PostgreSQL on a low-end site - RubyForge, 3.3M records - and it's comfortably handling 200K hits per day.

Maybe I can turn on logging for a day to count the queries; that would provide another data point.

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