On 03/09/07, Jim Hu <jimhu(a)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