(OT) mySQL vs. Oracle

["Chad W. Skinner" <chadws networksplus net>]

I have a couple of questions that have come up in the last week at work and
both seem rather incorrect to me.

I am trying to set up a database driven web site and was told by the guy in
charge of the web that I should use Oracle over mySQL, because Oracle is
more scalable and requires the client do less work than the server.  My
question is if you have the same database on Oracle as mySQL and pass an SQL
query to both will the Oracle not return the same information as mySQL.  If
they do the client will have to do the same amount of work on the
information.

If a web site gets 1,000 or even 10,000 hits and therefore maybe 2,000 to
20,000 queries to a database server a day is mySQL not sufficient. It seems
as thought Oracle would be overkill especially since I am talking at max a
10 -20 MB database (most likely 5 -10 MB).

Since I work for a school district I am concerned about having the district
fork over the 8,000- 10,000 in TAX dollars to get oracle when in my
understanding it would be overkill.

Please, give me advice as I do not know much about database servers and I
can not find an answer to this on the web.

Thanks,
Chad Skinner