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		technomancy on Sept 28, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL comparison by Anchor (github'... I didn't realize MVCC was only implemented in Postgres. That's a huge advantage if you're doing anything other than a mostly-read DB.

CrLf on Sept 28, 2009 [–]

If I'm not mistaken (I'm more of a DB2 guy), Oracle implements MVCC too.

masklinn on Sept 28, 2009 | [–]

It does, since version 7. MySQL also does under InnoDB or Falcon. Other DB with MVCC are BDB, Firebird, InterBase, SQL Server, Sybase, ZODB, CouchDB or ObjectStore.

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