I have mostly worked on proprietary databases in the past – DB2, SQL server, Sybase,Oracle at the enterprise scale and Microsoft Access for some light weight use. Now, there’s MySQL. I have been hearing about this from our clients and other geeks for a long time, finally decided to give it a try. Turns out, MySQL is actually a great product! I put it to some serious performance testing and was pleasantly surprised by the outcome. Why pay hefty license fees when MySQL can do the job for almost free? I tried MySQL 5.0, which has been out for a while, so getting the libraries wasn’t hard. The MySQL 5.1, I believe, is still in beta, and I had to roll it back, because it did not seem to like the mysql++ libraries.

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I have mostly worked on proprietary databases in the past – DB2, SQL server, Sybase,Oracle at the enterprise scale and Microsoft Access for some light weight use. Now, there’s MySQL. I have been hearing about this from our clients and other geeks for a long time, finally decided to give it a try. Turns out, MySQL is actually a great product! I put it to some serious performance testing and was pleasantly surprised by the outcome. Why pay hefty license fees when MySQL can do the job for almost free? I tried MySQL 5.0, which has been out for a while, so getting the libraries wasn’t hard. The MySQL 5.1, I believe, is still in beta, and I had to roll it back, because it did not seem to like the mysql++ libraries.