Doug Brown wrote: > I was wondering if anyone on the board has used, or is using > EnterpriseDB as their RDBMS? I noticed that Sony, who deploys over 150 > Oracle 9i servers are changing over to EnterpriseDB for their gaming > solutions. Is this a monster or what?
EnterpriseDB is a propietary PostgreSQL version. It adds some scalability features, a whole lot of compatibility features and management and development utilities. The most compelling feature it adds to PostgreSQL is PL/SQL. If you need support for PL/SQL there is no doubt about it and you should go for EnterpriseDB. If you don't need PL/SQL I think their offer has fewer benefits over a vanilla PostgreSQL. Obviously there is the support they provide, but since you can get PostgreSQL support from companies like RedHat and Sun you have more options in that area. > Anyhow, Just wanted to get some > input from people and their thoughts on what would be the best open > source solution to databses mySql or EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB is not open source. They contribute generously to the development of PostgreSQL (they did the coding for my idea for online index creation :) and they employ several PostgreSQL hackers, but their extensions are closed source. Anyway, I would say that PostgreSQL is the best open source database. But that is probably a self-fullfilling something, because it is also the database I like best and am most familiar with :) Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
