Camilo Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Doesn't PostgreSQL have a reputation as being somewhat pokey? Is it open
> source?
pokey? as in slow?
there are many web sites that have information on comparing the two (in
fact, searching google with the keywords 'mysql postgresql benchmark
comparison' produced over 1000 hits).
if you're worried about performance (and considering using pgsql), you
can always get a db handle with the option AutoCommit => 1 and don't set
up foreign keys. of course, doing the latter means you'll have to write
code to check data integrity. with mysql you'd have to do this anyway,
so maybe that won't be so bad for you.
personally, once i started using postgresql, i never went back to
mysql. it's much more powerful and like randall said, "it's oracle
without the price."
and, yes, it is open source.
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