On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:09:21PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > However, I disagree with Geoffrey on the fact that you need Oracle or DB2 or > a > different operating system than Linux (or BSD). By all means, Linux runs very > well on this hardware, and PostgreSQL and MySQL are as fast as Oracle or DB2 > or even more.
I just want to make the point that I said "appropriate hardware and operating systems". I did NOT say that Linux (or BSD) was not a good choice. With 30 million records in a database, I would seriously consider a different hardware platform. Some of the perform quite well with Linux some do not. As for development being done on Linux systems (mostly PCs), for the small demands of a development system compared to large database servers, a PC is a good platform and a decent Linux distribution (in terms of stability and maintainability) is fine. BTW, speed is rarely an issue in choosing a database system. Stability, reliability and scalability are much more important. As you said, Oracle has a much richer set of SQL functions than any of the others, that may be a bigger concern than price. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
