On Thursday 24 July 2003 08:45 am, ETI - Barry Irchad Kader wrote: > Hi! > > This message may be off topic and I apologize a lot if so. > > I would like to have your opinions about open source databases versus > commercial ones. I had a _serious_ debate with some of my colleagues > about open source in general but when I started to compare mysql to > oracle, they literally fired at me as if I had made a blasphemy... They > are stating that Oracle is above any comparison and that it is the must > in the universe of relational databases.
If you want to be on par with Oracle in term of relational DB, postgreSQL is the way to go. I've been application developer for 3 years using Oracle, then tried mysql, then tried postgreSQL. I found that postgreSQL has much more capabilities than mysql that are on par with Oracle. Add to that that all the benefits of OSS. I use the pgsql mailing list for support, and it's been great. Here is some page you might want to look at: http://advocacy.postgresql.org/ http://www.mysql.com/information/crash-me.php http://webmail.postgresql.org/~petere/comparison.html Hope that helps. RDB > Since, I am searching some objective informations in order to classify > these databases. I found (and was surprise to find) that the real > alternative to oracle were rather postgresql than mysql: when comparing > the features. > > But I didn't find any head to head comparison between open > source/commercial databases. > > Do you know any benchmark results that made this kind of comparison? > > Thanks a lot for any suggestion. > > And again, my apologizes if this is not the right place to ask such > questions. > > Best regards, > Kader. -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
