[Dbix-class] any factual comparisons of Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL ?

[Len Jaffe]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Robert Kinyon <rob.kinyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The whole point of a relational datastore is to be able to make
> assertions about the relationships between the data points. If foreign
> key checking can be turned off, then not validated when turned on, I
> cannot make those assessions. Thus, the quality of the data is null.
>

What Rob said.
If  you don't care about data integrity, don't use an RDBMS.

You know that the MYISAM engine is just a dbm file.  You can code directly
to DBM.
You'll even be on the cutting edge of the NoSQL movement.

L.

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