Jason,Kaputnik and Paul, Thanks all for u opinion !!!

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Magic Ang

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schmidt" <paul@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: [IBO] IBO + Interbase <-> dbExpress + MySQL


> Ang:
>
> Pardon me for my 2cents, but I have used both MySQL and IB, so I
> figure I can answer your questions.
>
> MySQL is quite fast, but that is because most of the features that
> would slow it down, are missing. The last time I looked at MySQL
> (last September/October) it had no support for triggers, stored
> procedures or views. Referential integrity and foreign keys exist so
> the parser doesn't choke, but don't do anything.
>
> The biggest concern I had with it, had to do with the licensing, it's
> extremely confusing, in some cases it's GPL, in other cases it isn't
> and requires that you pay support fees, and in still other cases that
> you pay royalties on top of the support fees. I read the licence
> through a number of times, and it still wasn't clear.
>
> Now as for speed, it's a non-issue, you need to size the database
> server properly, to get the performance level you want. MySQL might
> have a slightly faster engine, but you don't have triggers and
> stored procedures, which means you can't run some database operations
> on the server, and that means more load on the client and network.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 21 Mar 2001, at 14:10, Ang Lik Huar wrote:
>
> To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
> From: "Ang Lik Huar" <lhang@...>
> Date sent: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:10:17 +0800
> Send reply to: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] IBO + Interbase <-> dbExpress + MySQL
>
> > Jason,
> >
> > What is the pro & con for the above combination regarding
> > flexibility,speed,compability, expense .. etc ???
> >
> > I think the dbExpress + MySql that come with Kylix (or also Delphi 6
> > ??) will make a lot of ppl switch to that area.
> >
>
> Paul Schmidt,
> Tricat Technologies
> Email: paul@...
> Website: www.tricattechnologies.com
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