Stumbled onto this MySQL commentary

A list of MySQL gotcha's that really makes you do a double take when looking for a database with the robustness we have all come to expect. I have never used MySQL for anything other than little one-off's that are normally php based. I did write a neat little wrapper for a game engine that bound to MySQL though. In retrospect I would have fought using it had I know the number of weird things that go on with it. InterBase has always been a strong contender for the small databases and since it has an open source variant it is probably a better place to look so long as you can get it hosted. It seems like the free-for-all semantics of scripting languages can be applied equally well to your data storage environment - NOT.