On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:03:23PM +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote: <snip> > > I've always been led to believe that you go with MySQL if you want > speed, Oracle if you want data integrity. I know they both handle each > one admirably, but Oracle is known more for guarding the data against > mishaps and MySQL is known more for performance. PostgreSQL generally matches MySQL in performance, and maintains referential integrity (foreign keys and such) without the need for multiple backend storage engines. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php