In my very humble and naive opinion, MySQL has the whole 'worse is better' thing going for it. Does less, does it maybe less than perfect, but it does it very quickly and reliably.
We've personally scaled MySQL to many tens of thousands of concurrent users without too much trouble and without a dedicated person watching the database.
That said, I've only really worked significantly with MSSQL and MySQL, so my points of comparison are based largely on what I've heard. The majority of my last 15 professional years have been spent with MySQL.
We've personally scaled MySQL to many tens of thousands of concurrent users without too much trouble and without a dedicated person watching the database.
That said, I've only really worked significantly with MSSQL and MySQL, so my points of comparison are based largely on what I've heard. The majority of my last 15 professional years have been spent with MySQL.