From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T06:27:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP

Gaurang Khetan wrote:
> Hello experts,
>
> I thought this topic was quite related so posted in this same thread..
>
> We are going to start a new website (serving videos

Ruby speed is irrelevant.

>  but several database 
> intensive features as well

There too (unless these "intensive features" involve fetching high
number of rows and computing on them in Ruby).

> ), and we think it will hopefully reach a 
> stage where scalability is going to become important.
>
> Hence I wanted some idea abt speed..
>   

You may want to compare RDBMs under your projected concurrent loads and
storage solutions for serving video...

Lionel