Why ?
Why ?
Posted May 30, 2003 22:09 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460)In reply to: Why ? by tjc
Parent article: MySQL AB and SAP AG Partner to Build New Open Source Databases
> 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?