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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Seeking feedback about DBMS support
(Schroeder, AJ (GE Healthcare, consultant))
2. Re: Seeking feedback about DBMS support (Carlos Vicente)
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:55:55 +0000
From: "Schroeder, AJ (GE Healthcare, consultant)"
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Subject: Re: [Netdot-users] Seeking feedback about DBMS support
To: Carlos Vicente <[email protected]>, netdot-users
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I am not a DBA by trade, so I can't really speak to the technical aspects of
each respective database engines. I have used Pg and MySQL backends with
various software packages.
I have done a little development in the past and I used Pg and really liked it,
it seemed to be a more feature rich and mature platform than MySQL. Of course
this was all about 7 years ago so I am sure that MySQL has gotten better.
So for me, based on past experience I am giving a thumbs up to Pg.
AJ
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carlos Vicente
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 3:10 PM
To: netdot-users; netdot-devel
Subject: [Netdot-users] Seeking feedback about DBMS support
Dear Netdot community,
One of our initial design goals for Netdot was to make it DB-agnostic.
We aimed at supporting both MySQL and Postgres equally. However, our production
systems at the University of Oregon have always been based on MySQL, so Pg
support was somewhat lagging. It still is.
The sad truth is that it takes considerable time and effort to support two
backends.
At a recent discussion we talked about the possibility of supporting only
PostgreSQL in the future. There are a few things that make Pg
attractive: native support for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, table partitions, etc.
Pg is also not owned by Oracle ;-)
A decision like this can't be made lightly. We certainly do not want to
alienate administrators out there.
My hunch is that most people don't care about the backend, and if they do, they
prefer Pg. Am I right?
What do you all think?
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cv
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:11:15 -0400
From: Carlos Vicente <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Netdot-users] Seeking feedback about DBMS support
To: netdot-users <[email protected]>, netdot-devel
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Dear all,
Thank you very much for your feedback. Between this mailing list and FB,
so far we received 11 replies. Only one person had a preference for
MySQL over Pg.
We will keep you informed about our future plans.
Regards,
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cv
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