MySQL Wins Editor's Choice in Road Test

Builder.au has selected MySQL 5.0 as the editor's choice in their recent road test of databases comparing MySQL, SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle.  Hat's off to the MySQL development team for making this happen.  We're very proud of all of the new capabilities in MySQL 5.0 and it's nice to see the hard work recognized, especially when compared to some pretty stiff competition.  Here are a few select quotes:

• "Release 5.0 of MySQL is really taking it to the Oracle and DB2 with advanced features such as cluster support and fault tolerance and in most other departments the features run head to head with the competition. Non-SQL junkies can take heart with the GUIs dramatically reducing the reliance on the CLI, bringing administration and configuration within the realms of the novice. MySQL V5.0 is a compelling product and it is hard to argue against its nomination for the Editor's Choice award."
• "Now where other vendors offer a free version of their software, it is inevitably a nobbled version with support for only a single CPU, memory restrictions, database size restrictions, or they include a performance throttle to ensure sales of the higher end products from the same vendor are not eroded.   MySQL has none of these problems or enforced limitations as is evident by many large deployments around the globe."
• "MySQL runs the entire gamut in terms of hardware supported and can reside in as little as a 64MB Flash Card and 16MB of RAM as an embedded application all the way up to multi-CPU servers and clusters thereof -- and cluster support is comprehensive with full fault tolerance."
• "Should you need to migrate a database from another proprietary database such as MS SQL Server, Oracle or MS Access then the Migration Toolkit, again with the friendly GUI, should take a good deal of the worry out of the process."

Meanwhile, momentum for MySQL 5.0 continues to grow.  We had our first million downloads of 5.0 in the first three weeks and then another million downloads in the following 2 weeks.  Not only have downloads continued to grow, but according to our calculations, we will finish 2005 with more than 8 million active installations of MySQL worldwide --and that's a conservative estimate.  Wow!  Thanks to everyone who has made MySQL so popular.

• Builder.au: Database Roadtest
• Slashdot: MySQL Beats Commercial Databases in Test