I'm going to tell you what MySQL is bad at!

English session

MySQL for many years has been everyone's default choice for data storage. It's easy to install, easy to use and scales well if you put just a little bit of effort into it.

Enter 2010, and there are a lot more options for data storage. We have fulltext systems like Sphinx available, and a whole wave of NOSQL databases. So in which cases shouldn't we be using MySQL?

Morgan Tocker View speaker page

Percona, Inc

Morgan is a MySQL Expert, with interests in Performance Tuning,
scalability and High Availability. He is a regular speaker on these
topics at MySQL (and PHP) conferences in the United States and Canada.

Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a Technical Instructor for
MySQL (and then Sun Microsystems) in Canada where he taught courses on
High Availability, Performance Tuning and Database Administration. He
has also previously worked in the MySQL Support Team, and provided DRBD
support.

Morgan lives in Montreal, Canada. He's content in settling there after
moving from Australia in 2007.