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Why ?

Posted May 28, 2003 14:41 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Why ? by khim
Parent article: MySQL AB and SAP AG Partner to Build New Open Source Databases

"Slightly better than a text file" perception is just name calling

Indeed. MySQL's minimalist approach has resulted in a product with higher performance and fewer bugs than is typical of modern software products, which is probably why they have millions of users.

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Posted May 30, 2003 22:09 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]

> MySQL's minimalist approach

You may call it minimalist. I call it insufficient.

> approach has resulted in a product with higher performance

Yes, if you ignore the performance hint and added risks of doing consistency in the application instead of the database.

> and fewer bugs

Nice answer to complexity: transfer it to someone else! So if you don't want to risk bugs in the DBMS, deny functionality so that it has to implemented, bugs and all, in the application.

> than is typical of modern software products

PostgreSQL is neither new nor buggy. Nor are SAPdb, Interbase or IBM DB2. What are you comparing to, Oracle or MS SQL Server?