Interesting. I also read somewhere that Sybase started from the same code-base as did
PostgreSQL. As per SAPDB doing better than PostgreSQL--can you qualify that
statement? In what manner? Both are mature, both are highly scalable, both have
robust transaction support, both are object-relational, both offer Perl DBI, JDBC,
ODBC, C/C++ interfaceability, and both are open source having commercial support---(if
everything I am hearing about SAPDB is correct) both neither offer the transpearant
distributed data/CPU capabilities of DB2 EE.
So what's "better" about SAPDB?
--Matthew
>>> Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/01 01:00PM >>>
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Matthew Tedder wrote:
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> It looks interesting... Is it a relatively new product? Maturity is
> important. PostgreSQL also has all of what you mention, it is also
> Object Relational and has very robust transaction support. The only
> scalability limitation that causes me to look at DB2 EE is the
> transpearant distributed data/processing capabilities.
SAPDB is *not* a relatively new product. It is SAP's code fork of the
Adabas D database, and is validated to run R/3 (you know, SAP is the
world's 3rd largest [pure] software company thanks to one product -- R/3,
which costs multiple millions of $$ to deploy).
For some reason, SAP has decided to open-source the SAPDB product. I think
it is getting long in the tooth (Adabas used to be a dominant DB player,
but IBM and Oracle have basically kicked their *ss). Still, a database
buff enough to run an ERP system like SAP would probably do better than
PostgreSQL...
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