[wp-hackers] State of WP

[Brian Layman]

> In my testing with extremely heavy loads on limited hardware, Oracle and
> MSSQL proved to be the most reliable - so long as the applications
wereproperly coded (and
> unfortunately, best performance was achieved using
> non-ANSI SQL queries... :(

I've not met anyone that was actually really happy with their Oracle system.
They just sort of co-existed with it.  :)  I'm sure they are around, I just
haven't bumped into them yet.

> Anyway, PostgerSQL is a decent alternative that's similar enough to MySQL
if
> you're looking to port WPMU....

That's one with which I have no experience or knowledge.  I don't know what
makes it special.
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