Spiders and crawlers

[Fabio FZero]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:41, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> > I'm looking to implement a spidering system intended to look through a
> bunch
> > of catalog websites, in order to track changes to those catalogs (with
> the
> > help of a backend MySQL system).
>
> I always wonder: Why mysql?  Postgresql is an obviously better and more
> scalable choice.  Why do so many people just barge ahead with mysql?
>

I was going to say that mysql is more widely supported, but this is clearly
not true, so... beats me. Even more now when most languages have pretty fine
ORMs available.

FZ
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