Java and Python

[David Bolen]

Michael Chermside <mcherm at destiny.com> writes:

> Jan Dries writes:
> >> May I ask you what the scale for your webapp was? (Because MySQL is 
> >> related to small to mid-size web applications). Is it the same case with 
> >> Python?
> > 
> > FWIW, a recent benchmark test in Eweek showed MySQL to be comparable to 
> > Oracle 9i with respect to both performance and scalability.
> > See http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=708&a=23115,00.asp
> 
> And please not that this benchmark used MySQL in *transaction* mode, 
> same as Oracle. When used without transactions it's even faster. I must 
> say, I was quite surprised... I thought Oracle was further ahead.

True, but the transaction driver was carefully chosen to only apply to
a subset of the tables, so I'm not sure if it would have been the same
if all tables were transactioned.

Very respectable, nevertheless.

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