8 Reasons Not To Use MySQL (And 5 To Adopt It)

Esther Schindler writes "Database decisions are never easy, even — or maybe especially — when one choice is extremely popular. To highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the open-source MySQL DBMS, CIO.com asked two open-source experts to enumerate the reasons to choose MySQL and to pick something else. Tina Gasperson takes the 5 reasons to use MySQL side, and Brent Toderash discusses 8 reasons not to. Note that this isn't an 'open source vs proprietary databases' comparison; it's about MySQL's suitability in enterprise situations."

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Ready...Set...

[mugnyte]

...Fanboi RDBMS wanker post race begins.....

  NOW

  Seriously, the articles do nothing more than point out the *best places* MySQL may or may not work, not that it is better than anything.
  One size yet again does not fit all.

    Hmmm..where's my Model204 manuals...?

Looking at the 8 reasons not to use MySQL...

[ezh]

#1. MySQL uses GPL
#2. MySQL does not use GPL

close(rantPage);

System.out.println("Nothing here to see. Please, move along...");

Re:Uh, oh. The pro mysql guy can't count.

[Mattintosh]

The pro-MySQL "guy" can't pee standing up, either. "He" is a she.

The anti-MySQL guy is Canadian, though, so he probably doesn't pee standing up either. Lots of beer -> floor -> bladder evacuation. I kid, I kid...

Re:oooo, goody

[DysenteryInTheRanks]

A nice flame war. I'm just going to sit back, crack a beer and enjoy it. It is almost memorial day weekend, you know. Hopefully it get hot enough in here to roast a hot dog.

Oh goody! I'll help get things going:

• MySQL users will have to wait until you are done with the fire before they can roast their hot dogs, since MySQL is not a real database and does not support concurrent roasting;
  
• I've read the PostgreSQL manual eight times and still can't figure out something as bloody simple as roasting a hot dog, though I did figure out I have to call VACUUM before I can apply ketchup;
  
• Serious enterprises who care about their hot dogs use Oracle, since you can roast over 10,000 dogs at once and optionally impart the taste of filet mignon;
  
• If you try to roast a footlong hotdog using MySQL it will silently truncate it to regular size, causing your child to cry;
  
• Oracle will sue you if you complain about the difficulty of starting your fire or the blackened taste of the dogs;
  
• With SQLite your hot dogs are pre-roasted;
  
• Last year on Memorial Day, mysqld leapt out of my MacBook Pro and pushed my cousin into the fire, resulting in third degree burns. And also it causes cancer. And terrorism. Blindness. Violent puppy death. BOO! MYSQL IS SCARY DON'T USE MYSQL!!
  

Happy Memorial Day!

Re:oooo, goody

[Doctor Memory]

Serious enterprises who care about their hot dogs use Oracle, since you can roast over 10,000 dogs at once and optionally impart the taste of filet mignon; Yeah, but only if your locale is set to US-ASCII. If you try to use UTF-8, taste defaults to pate de fois gras. However, under US-ASCII "SELECT beer FROM fridge" will return only 'Budweiser' or 'Miller Lite'...

Re:Uh, oh. The pro mysql guy can't count.

[drinkypoo]

The pro-MySQL "guy" can't pee standing up, either. "He" is a she.

• The Female Urinal of Casinotheater (other examples are available, this was the first hit)
• Basic tutorial for women to pee standing

Just keepin' it real. Gotta love the internet.

Re:Easy To Use

[froggero1]

but oranges are sticky... and very inconsistant, sometimes you get really sour ones, no real warning sign of that. apples at least you know what you're getting... if it's squishy, it'll be gross and brown inside.

unless you include green apples in that debate, those ones can be pretty effin random. i don't like those ones much.

hmm... i need to do some more considering on this debate.

come to think of it, christmas oranges rock the house... so i guess if your comparing christmas oranges to green apples, then yeah, oranges > apples. but i think on average i'm still going to go with apples > oranges just based on sticky fingers and the potential of unexpected sourness.

Re:Reasons not to use MySQL? These are stupid reas

[Ice Station Zebra]

--Poor quality filesort algortythm (want to see your $20,000 dollar database server die?)

What does Al Gore have to do with this?

well then

[illuminatedwax]

8 is more than 5!! Looks like I won't be using MySQL!