Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Jun 2004 21:11 UTC
Today we features a mini-Q&A with Alex Roedling, MySQL's Senior Product Manager, about all things MySQL, the competition, technology, licensing and more.
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MySQL --> free (GPL) or for-fee (commercial), fast SELECTs, just recently supported transactions, no subqueries/stored procs/views/triggers in current stable version, supports many platforms (including FreeBSD,Linux & Windows)
PostgreSQL --> free (BSD-like), good overall performance, supports transactions/subqueries/stored procs/views/triggers/lots of data types, supports only UNIX (no stable native Windows version yet)
MS SQL --> works only on Windows, not free (of course), good overall performance, supports transactions/subqueries/stored procs/views/triggers, built-in full-text search engine, OLAP capabilities
Oracle --> supports many platforms, overall recognized leader in performance and scalability, supports transactions/subqueries/stored procs/views/triggers
well that's all i know