PHP is not Java!

A developer of MySQL (or should i say Sun) pointed me to an interesting article about a very special MySQL performance tuning idea for MyISAM tables with a lot of concurrent writes. Lately at a customer's site i saw a MySQL DB with 118,000 tables. The thrilling bit was that the configuration of the MySQL DB was only allowing for 800 MB of main memory and 256 open tables. And it still worked (a little slow admittedly). Congratulations to MySQL for giving the world such an indestructible database!