Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:57:41 -0500 From: Jeff Eckermann <jeckermann@verio.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Oracle, Message-ID: <08CD1781F85AD4118E0800A0C9B8580B094A75@NEZU>
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The recently-released PostgreSQL version 7.1 (in current ports) is a big advance over previous versions. And it is as close to SQL standard compliance as about any other serious RDBMS. Definitely worth checking out. > -----Original Message----- > From: Roelof Osinga [SMTP:roelof@eboa.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:36 PM > To: JL > Cc: cornwall@intelos.net; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: LRe: Oracle, > > JL wrote: > > > > If you want a reliable and stable SQL server, MySQL runs without linux > emu > > and fits that bill. My FreeBSD server is the official MySQL development > > server for FreeBSD (It's nice having MySQL developers who are also > admins on > > my production box). > > Not that this is the right list for this, but. > > For production usage you cannot compare Oracle with MySQL. There are > alternatives to Oracle, even free ones like Interbase (or Firebird as > it's now called but which doesn't install :() and possibly PostgreSQL. > > Those have transaction control (both by way of a versioning engine) and > several more goodies which are needed in a production environment. Like > stored procedures and triggers. > > They come close to Oracle. Especially Interbase/Firebird due to it > being plain SQL instead of OO SQL. Yet even they lack several of the > tuning needed for truly large production systems (terabytes and such). > > MySQL is a very good DBMS for what it does. But it has severe limits. > > Roelof > > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > eBOAź est. 1982 > http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 > mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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