Re: postgresql vs mysql

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:49:06 +1300
"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
> > That depends greatly on what you're doing with it. Generally, as soon
> > as you start throwing a multi-user workload at it, MySQL stops
> > scaling. http://tweakers.net recently did a study on that.
> I think I recall that wikipedia uses MySQL ... they get quite a few
> hits, too, I believe.

Wikipedia is, like ./, heavily cached. Almost every answer you get
comes from a proxy, not from the database itself.

Kind regards

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