In article
<8c133c2c-87a6-4435-9910-f6a735a427de@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
walterbyrd <walterbyrd@iname.com> wrote:

> There are tons of MySQL installations. But, I think most of them are
> for very light-weight applications: blogs, small time ecomm, CMSes.

Wikipedia runs on top of MySQL. According to the latest stats, it's got 10
million articles, 1.7 billion words, 684 million visitors per year,
20-45,000 pages per second. That's hardly a lightweight application.