Actually, if you read their bios about half of the contributors to that blog are in smeawoy involved with Vertica.I don't feel like he was trying to say that Vertica was a one size fits all system. It sounded to me like he was pushing the fact that it was very specifically catered to data warehousing, and that similar solutions could likely be crafted for various other applications that would, due to their custom tuning and design, would be better suited than Oracle, DB2, and even MySQL. And I'd guess that this is likely the case. I agree, certainly, that with the pluggable storage engine architecture MySQL comes closest to accommodating a wide variety of applications with great flexibility. But the fact is that in most any situation, the more specifically you write your system to handle one specific area, the better it will perform (assuming you know what you're doing, of course).
ZHNkNEqeCkRAsder March 5, 2013 at 9:13 PM
Actually, if you read their bios about half of the contributors to that blog are in smeawoy involved with Vertica.I don't feel like he was trying to say that Vertica was a one size fits all system. It sounded to me like he was pushing the fact that it was very specifically catered to data warehousing, and that similar solutions could likely be crafted for various other applications that would, due to their custom tuning and design, would be better suited than Oracle, DB2, and even MySQL. And I'd guess that this is likely the case. I agree, certainly, that with the pluggable storage engine architecture MySQL comes closest to accommodating a wide variety of applications with great flexibility. But the fact is that in most any situation, the more specifically you write your system to handle one specific area, the better it will perform (assuming you know what you're doing, of course).
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