One of the great things about open source is the heated discussions, not to mention the creative use of english.  I often find people who use english as a second or third language much more expressive than native speakers.  Here is a little snippet from an interesting thread I bumped into while researching a new mysterious PHP error message, “Session object destruction failed”.

Men, i was dying from laugh when i readed their “benchmark” information… In db-programmers community there are many similar “benchmarks”, which compare FoxPro with solid nature of Interbase. Many people believe in all these absurds and ask: “hey, why the IB is so slow?!”. My only answer is: “If i go to war, i choose Leopard 2A5 or Leclerc – not Ferrari, i choose BMP-3 – not Iveco truck, ’cause i will fight and question if i survive is vital to me, not to be fast”. In fact, comparing file (“desktop”) database with real SQL-compliant database server is like comparing car with tank and – believe me – programming is like war… If you really want to compare “speed”, do not use any front-ends, only embedded (built-in) capabilities like stored procedures (didn’t see anything like that in MySQL), referential integrity (“why do not use RI?”), triggered actions (i.e. ON UPDATE|ON DELETE CASCADE|DELETE|SET NULL|NO ACTION), triggers (BEFORE|AFTER DELETE|UPDATE|INSERT), custom exceptions, linked UDF’s, two-phase commit, constraints etc. How many of them are present in MySQL? I can say with hand on my heart, that since i started working with Interbase i do not want any DBMS that doesn’t provide me these things. Really, MySQL is very good database compared to dBase, Paradox, FoxPro or even Access, but it’s not a match for any real database server. Do not mix them!