> > Hmmm, MySQL 5 is promising though. And quite the nice stab at
> > Firebird - with _still_ no released v2 ( I know why, but the outside
> > world doesn't) and is slowly creeping towards v3 with hardly any
> > new features?
>
> Err, nearly all the MySQL 5.0 features are things we've got already, and
> they're still missing a lot. And other features are not what they seem

Er, yeah. But given that you're a MySQL user now, why would
you change?

They also have "stuff" that we don't.

The gap is closing, unless "we" move forward more quickly.

> - for example "clustering" is restricted to data sets that can be held
> in memory. Their V5 is a year late on a year schedule. And I can't
> help suspecting that the replacing InnoDB is going to absorb quite a lot
> of their engineering time in the next year.

That is, IF it needs replacing.

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Martijn