1.10 How MySQL Compares to Other Databases

Our users have successfully run their own benchmarks against a number of Open Source and traditional database servers. We are aware of tests against Oracle server, DB/2 server, Microsoft SQL Server, and other commercial products. Due to legal reasons we are restricted from publishing some of those benchmarks in our reference manual.

This section includes a comparison with mSQL for historical reasons and with PostgreSQL as it is also an Open Source database. If you have benchmark results that we can publish, please contact us at benchmarks@mysql.com.

For comparative lists of all supported functions and types as well as measured operational limits of many different database systems, see the crash-me web page at http://www.mysql.com/information/crash-me.php.

Subsections

• 1.10.1 How MySQL Compares to mSQL
• 1.10.1.1 How to Convert mSQL Tools for MySQL
• 1.10.1.2 How mSQL and MySQL Client/Server Communications Protocols Differ
• 1.10.1.3 How mSQL 2.0 SQL Syntax Differs from MySQL
• 1.10.2 How MySQL Compares to PostgreSQL
• 1.10.2.1 MySQL and PostgreSQL development strategies
• 1.10.2.2 Featurewise Comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL
• 1.10.2.3 Benchmarking MySQL and PostgreSQL

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