This is question for Juan, have you asked the MySQL mailing list? What do they say about this?
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Erik Jones <ejo...@engineyard.com> wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > > The question is: Which DBMS do you think is the best for this kind of >>> application? PostgreSQL or MySQL? >>> >> >> As you can imagine, PostgreSQL. >> >> My main reasons are that in a proper transactional environment (ie >> you're not using scary MyISAM tables) Pg is *much* better about handling >> concurrent load, particularly concurrent activity by readers and writers. >> > > Actually, following this comment it should be noted that if you were to > choose MySQL you'd pretty much be making a decision to *not* be using > transactions at all. The reason for this is that while InnoDB does support > MySQL's geometry data types it does *not* support indexes on geometry > columns, only MyISAM does which does not support transactions. Call me old > fashioned if you like, but I like my data to have integrity ;) > > Erik Jones, Database Administrator > Engine Yard > Support, Scalability, Reliability > 866.518.9273 x 260 > Location: US/Pacific > IRC: mage2k > > > > > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- - John L Cheng
