RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

There is a new alternative. SAPDB is open source but supported by SAP. Whan used outside of SAP applications it is free but charged when used inside of SAP. The support is from a major software company and the features are much closer to the Oracle feature set.

Emery Gordon

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• "Weaver, Walt" <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>

> I don't think you're wrong. MySQL gets dissed frequently on this list, but
> it's really a nice little product. IMHO it's much closer to Oracle than
> Access.
>
> It works well for us. Doesn't scale like Oracle, but works well.

In some ways it scales better than Oracle. For load+query (a.k.a., "warehouse") operations it can be faster than Oracle because it doesn't get tangled up with rollbacks, etc. On systms with many "instances" it also can be much simpler to administer.

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