[ale] On Databases...

[Jeff Hubbs]

It was my understanding that, about a year and a half to two years ago,
some major rewriting was done to PostgreSQL that greatly improved its
speed.  Did this improvement still land far short of Oracle/DB2?

- Jeff

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 10:12, Stuffed Crust wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:01:13AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > Seriously, though, I think that you could make a successful argument that
> > since PostgreSQL will host on a Linux server, and since there would then be
> > *no* client access licenses required for either accessing the host server
> > *or* the DB server, that the programmer could then command at *least* as
> > much, if not *more* in actual labor fees as compared to Oracle, DB2, etc.
> 
> Unfortunately, as good as postgresql is, it's relatively slow.. and more
> importantly, it lacks things like database replication and other
> high-availability features.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I love PostgreSQL.    But it has a ways to go before
> it enters the Oracle/DB2 league.
> 
>  - Pizza
> -- 
> Solomon Peachy                                   pizza at f*ckthesuers.org
> I'm not broke, but I'm badly bent.                         ICQ #1318344
> Patience comes to those who wait.                         Melbourne, FL



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