Re: (OT) mySQL vs. Oracle

["Rick L. Mantooth" <rickdman cyberramp net>]

Chad,
Not coming close to answering your question, but Informix has announced
Dynamic Server for Linux 5.2 for US $99.00.

I haven't ordered yet, but plan to.
http://www.informix.com and follow the Linux link.
Rick

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chad W. Skinner wrote:

> 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
> 

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