Robert:
I actually wasn't trying to start a flame war at all. I was relating
what I had read in the mysql mailing list regarding Innodb and wanted
a true, unbiased answer. I have found that most commercial software
companies expand the truth as do fledgling open source companies such
as GreatBridge and MySql.
Pointing me to a URL over a year old does not really answer the
question of whether the new database format is any good or not. For
the application that I am working on which is mostly reporting, mysql
is actually ok (execept for adding columns which can take a while).
Multi-version concurrency control, for my app really has no value. The
company I am doing this for has a site license for MS SQL Server, but
I would rather avoid it if possible.
Microsoft research as a book on their website (their monopolistic
profits actually bought some research for once).
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/ccontrol/
And oh, I was thinking of putting openacs on the same machine...
