MYSQL SHOP

[paul_mellon36]

Hi there,

I am writing a dissertation and I have to prove a point. I recently built a shop using php and mysql, however before i did this i had to decide which technologies would be best to build this.e.g. jsp, asp, cgi, coldfusion etc.

I built it in php as it was easiest because of my knowledge of it already.

Do any of you wizards know how i could prove my point? with advantages and disadvatages for selected technologies and DB's?

Thanks in advance :notworthy:
Paul

[VGR]

ut of the "three majors" (M$-Sql-Server, Oracle, MySql) [no, I don't count DB2 as a major RDBMS ;-) ] MySql :
- supports the best the standards SQL-92 and SQL-99
- has extensions that don't hamper you to use standard SQL anywhere. SHOW TABLES and such are now replaced with dictionary equivalents in MySql 5, thus becoming more and more standards-compliant (INFORMATION_SCHEMA)
- has various engines availale, transactional in ACID mode or not
- is the fastest RDBMS around
- is the best suited for Web
- has the smallest footprint
- runs cross-platform
-etc?