On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 04:58:00PM +0000, Martin Oldfield wrote: > Does anyone have a feel for the relative performance of the various > SQL databases in Debian ? I'd also be interested to know how these > compare to something like Oracle (under either NT or Linux). > > I'm looking to manage two databases: one of roughly ten thousand > records a few k in size, the other 100,000 rather smaller records. It > might well be feasible to use something like gdbm for the latter one.
Postgresql runs like greased lightning. In some tests involving 0.5 million records of a few K in size, it blew away MS SQL Server. I think it was version 6. Postgresql runs well, although it does have some limitations. ODBC was the main weakness I noticed. We're currently deploying Oracle on a Debian server... Oracle is bloatware even by Microsoft standards. I can't comment on speed yet. Good luck, Jeff
