On 03/09/07, Jim Hu jimhu@tamu.edu wrote:
Are there known performance issues that would make either of these superior in theory? I get the sense that there might be reasons to prefer Oracle, if you already are paying the license. Or is it just inertia? Dealing with an uncooperative hosting service?
On the performance angle, MySQL should perform better, simply because MediaWiki has been developed against it, and is therefore optimised for it.
Businesses probably don't want to support additional software if they're paying Oracle's, er, prices, for licencing, consultants, training, etc. for example.
Rob Church