RE: RES: Performance Question.

[Ed Carp]

> Don't forget that MySQL is the fastest thing on the planet for your (and mine)
> kind of simple query and insert/updates. We measured 12 times faster
> performance in MySQL than Oracle in one part of our application, and I
> strongly believe that in the MySQL case the Java program overhead became
> significant, but that was never measured.

Actually, the fastest is probably a binary search against a file of sorted, fixed-length
records, but that's a subject for another
post ;)