PHP Scalability?

[evangelinux]

A PHP developer explained that he was dropping a PHP project for Java/J2EE because PHP does not scale well. The projects deal with non-profit and religious organization data.

I'm a bit puzzled, as I didn't realize that PHP would have to scale for the size of the organization. Can anyone tell me what he might mean by that?

I would think that PHP could handle records for several thousand members of a non-profit organization. I could understand if the database server didn't scale well, but the scripting language? What's up???

Evangelinux

[LordShryku]

Maybe he means clustering application servers? Or threading support....

Pretty vague statement....

[piersk]

I'm guessing he means that PHP isn't as other languages (say Perl) for performing loads of lines of code.

You can go back to your guy and tell him that Yahoo! runs PHP (can't remember the link to it, but I'm sure someone will come back and let me know)...

Hows that for scalability?

[evangelinux]

For a church admin database that tracks membership records, finances, and possibly some other stuff, I would think it would be pretty straightforward. A big church would have lots of records - not necessarily more code.

[laserlight]

In that case, it should be the database backend that would have to scale well.