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prodigal_erik on Sept 8, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: "How hard can it be to implement?"

From a couple of web searches it sounds like they're on MySQL. Targeting a database that has working transactions has to be less work than implementing transactions yourself from scratch, which it seems everyone stuck on MySQL eventually has to do (that's what they're describing, and I know we've done similar things).

dabeeeenster on Sept 8, 2010 [–]

Depends what MySQL table types they are using. I think MyISAM has no transactional ability.

gaius on Sept 9, 2010 | [–]

I'd argue any database on modern hardware where you can't do a single transaction on a few hundred rows without noticeably affecting performance does not have "working transactions".

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