Gauthier, Dave wrote:
Hi Everyone:
Tomorrow, I will need to present to a group of managers (who know
nothing about DBs) why I chose to use PG over MySQL in a project, MySQL
being the more popular DB choice with other engineers, and managers
fearing things that are “different” (risk). I have a few hard tecnical
reasons (check constraint, deferred constraint checking, array data
type), but I’m looking for a “it’s more reliable” reasons. Again, the
audience is managers. Is there an impartial, 3^rd party evaluation of
the 2 DBs out there that identifies PG as being more reliable? It might
mention things like fewer incidences of corrupt tables/indexes, fewer
deamon crashes, better recovery after system crashes, etc... ?
Thanks !
There is a current question about the survivability of MySQL right now
with the potential sale of MySQL. I would not bank on MySQL for any
long-term project. I am sure that MySQL will live in the long run, but
they may well be turbulent times ahead if whomever comes to own MySQL
decides to neglect or kill it and the source gets forked.
Madi
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