Hi Geoffrey!
On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 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.
>
Oh OK, sure.
In that case, we can agree to agree. I still think my email can make a good
mini-essay and a good read.
Sorry if I offended you, and good night.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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