Prentice Bisbal Manager of Information Technology Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) Rutgers University http://rdi2.rutgers.edu
On 09/13/2012 10:45 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > On Sep 13, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >> On 09/13/2012 09:23 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> On Sep 13, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: >>> >>>> On 09/13/2012 08:52 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>>> the actual data goes through RDMA here and maybe through TCP using >>>>> mysql. >>>> I'm almost certain this isn't going through mysql, or this is an >>>> incredibly strange version of IOzone. This is just "mimicking" >>>> database >>>> accesses by doing smallish record direct I/O. >>>> >>>> Am I correct in my thinking here? >>> from email some time ago posted on this list: >>> >>> " Oracle and >>> Nexenta are both sending me ZFS based boxes to test and I hope to >>> compare >>> the performance and stability of these with the Netapp (formally lsi >>> engenio) E540" >>> >>> He got one or more machines from Oracle and the dude is benchmarking >>> MySQL... >>> >> Uhhh... Oracle owns MySQL. >> > As they wanted it to die of course and sell more Oracle databases. > > At the moment Oracle took over MySQL quite some years ago, i directly > switched to a different database and > threw away MySQL. > > The lastest incarnation of PostgresSQL is popular now as replacement > of MySQL. > > For serious database work - there is only Oracle of course. > No one should be interested in MySQL anymore by 2012. > > Note MySQL never was even remotely serious as a database. As soon as > you had its database go get out of RAM, > it became serious slow. This ridiculous claim confirms that you are completely out of touch with reality. If MySQL "never was even remotely serious as a database", why is it one of the most widely used databases in the world? I think the other poster was right. The only thing of value you can bring to this list is your silence. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
