Re: NASA switches from Oracle to MySQL

> MySQL is not a transactional database, so it doesn't even qualify for TCP
> benchmarks. A custom C to an ISAM file database is orders of magnitude
> faster than Oracle, and much faster than MySQL, but it still doesn't make it
> a good choice.

MySQL does nowadays support transactions. In earlier versions it wasn't but now it is a transactional database. You can read http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/commented/manual.php?section=Missing_Transactions do get more info.

Regards,

Knut

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