On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:56 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Wiles
But really that comparison is hardly just. Oracle is not cheap, but there is a lot more to Oracle than just the RDB, and there are other factors to consider than just size and distribution. However, I'd probably not recommend Oracle for a new implementation if MySQL or PostgreSQL could handle the data and load expected of the implementation. Including future needs. No sense in going with MySQL if you are expecting to get the outsourcing contract for Wal-Mart's inventory database. ;')
Let's not forget that CA recently released Ingres under a oss license. Lot like postgres (since postgres forked from older version of ingres).
Ingres has some features that make it very attractive, high availability, clustering, table partitioning, parallel query's, etc....
I like postgres a lot, but find myself getting excited about ingres