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Originally posted by Lane
by the way, ACID complience doesnt mean much to me unless it is something as crucial as a banks account database.. it brings too much unneccessary overhead.
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Lots of things are mission critical. For example last year I wrote an auditing system for the Air Force/NSA encryption keys used for two-person controlled nuclear weapons.
The collaborative geospatial system I'm writing code for right now would probably break without solid transactional support, checkpoints, and rollbacks.
mysql is fast for serving dynamic web pages, questionable for highly interactive web services, and just plain wrong for anything mission critical.