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Re: Minivend vs Others Options
Check back in archives for "Largest MiniVend Store" or
some such thread.
Thousands of products are easy. You can do that
with mysql on 486 hardware if you can find a suitable 486.
We generally use mySQL - there is no need for the additional
complexity and overhead in typical minivend app. Our usual product
page in typical catalog will frequently have at least one
3-5 table multi-database JOIN. Poorly indexed that's 11 seconds,
properly indexed .10 seconds in mySQL.
If the client wants Oracle, get the Oracle HOWTO and buy
Oracle. Or look at Sybase; they have done a fine service
to linux community - Sybase is simply **free** for linux. That is
a comforting name too. ;^)
cfm
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 10:19:11AM -0400, George Knerr wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I have done some pretty simple carts using minivend on a virtual server and have had little to no problems. I have a very big client wanting a database driven e-commerce site that they wish to take PUBLIC. They are selling information that before the Internet could not have been disseminate in this fashion. I thought I would use MySQL and minivend. But I could do it (with allot more work of course) in PHP3 and MySQL. My question to you is (you being the expert) should I gamble (only a gamble because I haven't done this size site before) such a big job on Minivend and MySQL. They will have thousands of products in the database. One of the deep pockets keeps seeing Oracle commercials and so he wants that. I don't do Oracle, yet. The machine will have Linux 6.0, latest Apache/PHP3/MySQL, Single PII450, Asus P2B98-S, 256 Mb PC100 RAM, Enlight Raid w/ 6 4.5Gig SCSI drives. Any input from anyone would be great!
>
> Also does anyone know of any BIG Name MySQL implementations that I can show these investors. I went to the MySQL page and was not impressed with their showoffs. One URL they display as an example is YAHOOSUCK.COM. Not something I want my investors to see. If you know what I mean.
>
> Thanks,
>
> George Knerr
> gknerr@webalution.net
>
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