Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Database written in PHP Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:15:51 +0200 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net KuWcB45OkgDKRfjA/8pn/Ay/vdlVE0RGOvdnONrWeyJouxDTv1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fb4nXcHchebuavBFyIPlx/0wJEg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:15776 On 10/24/2015 04:58 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Not all database engines are heavyweight. But those that are are that > for a reason. Making a reliable database engine is not a minor matter. > I looked at the ones J.O. pointed out, and I see nothing that will > prevent data corruption by such things as concurrent updates from > multiple applications. Now maybe that's not important to you, but it is > to anyone who cares about their site it should be. Plus, I still don't > see any performance comparisons for them - but they are going to be much > slower than any SQL database written in a compiled language. I wouldn't see any of them as something to be used in a production environment, they are more proof of concept, that you can write a database engine in PHP and learn the basics before moving toward contributor for say MariaDB. -- //Aho