Database Comparisons

Feature

MySQL 4.1

SQL Server 2000 (Enterprise)

SQL Server 2000 (Standard)

Price

$495 per server (free if you put your source code in the GPL)

$12,000 per processor

$3,600 per Processor

Relational Database

No

Yes

Yes

Supports Views

No (will appear in the 5.0 or 5.1 version)

Yes

Yes

Stored Procedures

No (5.0 Yes, currently in Alpha stage)

Yes

Yes

Foreign Keys

No

Yes

Yes

Job Scheduler

No

Yes

Yes

Multiple CPU support for Insert/Select, Update, Delete, Index

No

Yes

Yes

Send messages to DBA based on Alerts

No

Yes

Yes

Data transformation services

No

Yes

Yes

Transaction Support

No

Yes

Yes

Referential Integrity

No

Yes

Yes

Clustering

Yes

Yes

No