On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> i hope you can share some of your time to answer this poll.
>
> 1) which (if any) open-source RDMBS are you using?
PostgreSQL
> 2) did you recommend this RDBMS?
> a) if yes, why did you recommend it
It's the only open-source RDBMS which supports a usable subset of ANSI
SQL89 and SQL92. For example MySQL (the only other decent competition) has
iffy transactional support.
> 3) Please identify the
> a) Strengths
Transactional support. Multi-versioning (just like Oracle!) Speed. The
newest versions can do inserts faster than Oracle on the same hardware.
> b) Weaknesses
Uhm... I don't know.
> 3) please name your choice of top 3 RDBMS (1 being most preferred)
> 1)
> 2)
> 3)
1) Oracle
2) PostgreSQL
3) MySQL
these are the ones I've used.. I'm not gonna comment on those I don't use.
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Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mosaic Communications, Inc.
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