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		powertower on Feb 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Great Web Framework Shootout – On GitHub "Hello World" tests really need to go away and be replaced by a concurrent workload that represents 100s of users accessing, writing, etc. I remember a test that compared MySQL to SQL Server (Microsoft's SQL Server) a few years back. MySQL had SQL Server beat hands down... For 1 concurrent user. Once things scaled passed 10-20, SQL Server started winning. At 30-50, MySQL could no longer respond and would crash, while SQL Server scaled to 90! But everyone was wowed by the 1 user-load test! And countless posts were made over the years showing how MySQL is superior to the obviously flawed SQL Server.

mhurron on Feb 19, 2012 | [–]

Just to be pedantic, MSQL is not the usual shortening for MS SQL Server. MSQL is actually a product of its own, actually the precursor of MySQL.

rbanffy on Feb 20, 2012 | [–]

> I remember a test that compared MySQL to SQL Server (Microsoft's SQL Server) a few years back.

Just curious, how many?

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