Re: MySQL Speed ?? slower the Oracle ?

[Doug Salot]

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Michael Widenius wrote:

> It's only when you mix many slow queries with writes and can't let the
> readers wait as MySQL will not perform as good as Oracle) 

Is this because MySQL does table locking and Oracle does row locking, or
is it that Oracle does some sort of predictive query prioritizing?

In any case, is this something that will improve in MySQL in the
near-term?

-- Doug