OT: why are LAMP sites slow?

[Lee Harr]

>> Not only that, but with a well-design RDBMS you can put your
>> schema changes inside of a transaction and make sure everything
>> is right before committing.
>> 
> Bear in mind, however, that *most* common RDBMS will treat each DDL 
> statement as implicitly committing, so transactional change abilities 
> *don't* extend to schema changes.
>


I only use the free PostgreSQL which can make most schema
changes inside of transaction blocks. I believe that in 8.0
you can even change the type of a column in a transaction.

Free and easy to install (even on NT now in 8.0).

Very easy to use from python using psycopg or SQLObject.