Posted by Colin McKinnon on 09/26/05 13:09

smorrey@gmail.com wrote:

> I've been thinking on this long and hard, and I can't seem to come up
> with an answer on it.
>
> Why is it almost always assumed the MySQL will be the server for nearly
> any PHP app?
>
> Why is it MySQL and not PostGRES or SQLite?
>

I've been using MySQL for some time - it works. I don't have enough
experience with Postgres to criticise it - indeed it is offered as GPL
without restrictions (a lot of people ignore the exceptions in the MySQL
license) which to my mind would make it more approriate. I will say that
MySQL has been the most reliable DBMS I've used, and easiest to manage
(compared with Oracle, MS-SQLserver, Progress and Pencil). (I'm not wanting
to start a flame war here - this is my experience - not necessarily yours).

Is there an equivalent to phpMySQLAdmin for Postgres?

SQLite does not scale well.

C.

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