"Thomas D. Wilkinson" wrote:
>
> I'm working on a database project that is rather large scale and I am
> trying to avoid using Oracle because of the added cost to clients. It
> is intended to be connected to the web for e-commerce. My biggest fear,
> though is that I may be Slashdotted (This means being mentioned on a
> high traffic web site; this is good if the tools I use can handle it,
> embarrasing and costly if they can't).
>
> Has anybody ever had any experiences like this? Has MySQL been able to
> survive a million (gives me a margin of safety) hits in one day (The
> hardware will be appropriate -- is the software?)?
>
> Thanks
>
> - Thomas
>
> --
There exists a wide spread delusion that Oracle can handle a high load
much better than MySQL. In most cases this is not true. I would venture
to say that for banner exchange type site MySQL will do much better not
only in terms of cost, but also in terms of performance. Here is the
deal:
- MySQL - a simplified SQL database that gains high performance by
dropping the SQL features that will cause a signficant performance
overhead
- Oracle - s full-featured SQL database that has to sacrifice
performance in order to support all the fancy features
If MySQL becomes a limiting factor, it will not be because of speed - it
is the speed king of the databases - you might just need certain
features that it does not support. Even in that event, in my opionion,
you will still be better off by just coding around the limitations and
coming up with clever solutions.
--
Sasha Pachev
http://www.sashanet.com/ (home)
http://www.direct1.com/ (work)
