Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

[Ryan Crisman]

I use MySQL alot at my Company and we use the Community version.  I have
found that its just as good as the Paid one which by the MySQL website says
the paid one is more stable but I have yet to see any problems.

On 1/2/07, kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> Ryan Crisman wrote:
> > MySQL - Paid (Enterprise Edition), Paid Support
> > MySQL Community - Free (Personal Edition), Community Support
>
>         While the above is true it fails to answer the question, "As
> DBA/sysadmin what is the actual difference between the two so I can pick
> the right one for my workload." At least that's the question I
> interpreted the first post as asking.
>
>         Right now the code bases are exactly the same. Going forward it's
> not
> clear whether I'll be able to compile Mysql Enterprise myself with
> support for the Sphinx storage engine which is very fast for full text
> searches and a feature I desperately need. Also unclear is if the high
> concurrency Innodb thread fixes are going to be implemented in Community
> or Enterprise first. Enterprise appears to be the stable branch and will
> have changes back ported from Community, but the docs are less than
> clear at this point. In any case the issues are a bit more complicated
> than where your support comes from at least at the high end. For your
> general web-app either would be fine.
>
> kashani
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Ryan Crisman