Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant

narramissic writes "Back on November 29, MySQL developer Michael Widenius trashed Sun's decision to give MySQL 5.1 a 'generally available' designation in a now-infamous blog post. Widenius warned users to be 'very cautious about MySQL 5.1' because 'there are still many known and unknown fatal bugs in the new features that are still not addressed.' And now we get Sun's response. In an interview Monday, Marten Mickos, senior VP of Sun's database group, said, 'I learned over many years about the benefits and the painfulness of absolute transparency in open source. A little bit of debate never hurts. This is part of being an open-source company. ... People are free to blog about what they want.' Doubtless, this will do nothing to end the debate over whether Widenius will follow fellow MySQL co-founder David Axmark's lead and leave Sun."

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MySQL join performance deficiency, 2 orders of mag

[nluv4hs]

My subject line sounds inflammatory yet see below for hard numbers and a simple, real example. Someone please show me how to coax MySQL to perform as well as PostgreSQL for this simple query (Postgres 496 times faster). It's been over two months since I posted this problem on two very public forums, with no response from the MySQL community. Would someone please stand up for MySQL and save it from looking weak here?!

• mysql forums post: optimize IP range join - postgresql is 496 times faster
• original mysql performance blog post

Re:To their credit

[QuietLagoon]

MySQL has never been a stable database program.

. (5 insightful???) Well thats kind of harsh.

I've run MySQL datase servers on my websites for nearly 10 years without one problem. Tens of thousands of hits per day. No problems. MySQL is always there, and always working.

I only can wish that my desktop Windows were one-hundreth as reliable.