[Mediawiki-l] Database supported by Mediawiki

[Jim Hu]

Just wondering why anyone would want to do this.  My understanding is  
that MySQL and PostGRES are both free and open source, and are  
installable on lots of platforms, and it sounds a lot harder to add  
support for more databases than it is to just install one of the  
standard ones.

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?

I'm not a db expert so forgive me if this question shows a lack of  
insight about relative merits of the different RDBMS options.

On Sep 3, 2007, at 9:13 AM, zham rock wrote:

> Guys - does anyone knows whether MS SQL or Sybase is supported by  
> Mediawiki?
>
> -zham
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