Re: Why no Oracle, Sybase, Informix etc.
In article <35049A76.C0F8B5A@nconnect.net> you wrote:
: Same same. They've been trying to get me to 'look at' Developer 2000.
: They do have a SCO, and Solaris product, as well as AIX and HPUX, but no
: BSD/OS. They also said "no plans for it."
:
:> Personally, I use MySQL and it blows the doors off of many other
:> databases... in one case, we had a guy asking how many SPARC servers
:> we had running the thing (assuming Oracle or Sybase)... he was shocked
:> to learn it was on a single P5-166 with 64Mb RAM.
: I've used MySQL. It is very fast but doesn't support transactions. At
: least it didn't when I was using it. I currently use Velocis and
: PostgreSQL. Velocis seems slow compared to Postgres. PostgreSQL is
: fast, stable, and flexible, but ODBC support is marginal. My problem is
: that my customers don't get a warm fuzzy about a solution unless it has
: a brand name attached to it. The typical response is, "Free UNIX? Free
: RDMBS? What, are you nuts?" Can't seem to combat that one. Feel like
: a lemming on the Microsoft boat heading for the cliff. :-(
[CC'ed to PostgreSQL hacker list.]
Gee, I didn't think we were faster than Velocis. Hope you are planning
on moving to PostgreSQL 6.3. It is even better and faster.
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
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Gee, I didn't think we were faster than Velocis. Hope you are planning
on moving to PostgreSQL 6.3. It is even better and faster.That's what I'm using! (now) and yes, in my particular application
simple selects are about 15% faster than Velocis 1.41 on BSDi 3.1. I
That is surprising. I assume you have turned off fsync with the -F
option.
didn't spend a *whole* lot of time trying to tweak the CGI programs (
didn't have too much time to spend actually ) for either platform tho.
Truth is, PostgreSQL *ROCKS!*, I just have a hard time selling customers
on the idea of 'free' software. Perhaps you guys should package 6.3
under a different name and sell it for $12,000 to $15,000 U.S. ;-)You guys do a fantastic job!
Glad to hear you like it.
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