MySQL vs PostgreSQL formerly --> Re: [PLUG] Storing XML docs in SQL database on Linux?

Alex Daniloff alex at daniloff.com
Fri May 30 09:34:01 UTC 2003


Ron,
I don't want to start flame war ether, but let me point out on 
this fact that Java applications are running differently on different
OS platforms due to differences in its VM implementations.
So Java's cross-platform compatibility is just a mere of definition of
what it is. Perl is also cross-platform compatible as well as a bunch
of other programming languages.
We were trying to use Java for our eng. purposes and finaly dropped
it. Performance wise it's lagged far behind Perl. 
For example, the same application written in Java was starting its VM
on HP-UX for nearly 30 seconds, on Sun Solaris it takes about 12
seconds, on Linux 2.4.x it takes about 7-8 seconds, on NT/2000/XP it
takes from 3-5 seconds. 
Answering your question - JDBC support on Linux for MySQL is very 
good as well as for PostgeSQL. We had no problem with it whatsoever.

Regards.
Alex


> Why use JDBC? Perhaps because the application is written in Java?
Not to
> start a flame war (I *really* don't want to do that), but I consider
> Perl to be a really useful tool for easily solving most sysadmin
tasks.
> For serious software engineering, where the problem is both large
and
> highly complex (as in having to use linear algebra for a critical
/part/
> of the solution), I think that Java is really the only serious
> cross-platform contender (which is a fundamental requirement).
> 
> So back to the second part of my question: How good is the JDBC
support
> on Linux for MySQL compared to PostgreSQL?






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