Hey! You missed Interbase! \8)
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> ..
> > Coming from an oracle bigot, that's quite expected \8} But most people
> > don't have the dinero for Oracle anyway, so there... Poor man's ldap and
> > poor man's sql + poor man's software raid + poor man's OS = kick ass
> > solution...!
>
> Nope, I'm not an Oracle bigot. I'm quite aware of how much it costs. I've
> gone from MySQL to Informix-SE to Informix-IDS to Sybase ASE to Oracle.
> And now PostgreSQL. Although the majority of my experience is with MySQL
> and Oracle.
>
> Besides, Oracle practises the same think Linux does: it's sufficiently
> complicated that I'm assured of employment for quite some time.. c'mon,
> admit it, a lot of people are happy with Linux because it makes them
> Needed, whereas Win2K would make them Un-Needed.
>
> (of course Win2K would also cause lots of service outages, etc, etc)
>
> I "push" Oracle because.. well, I know it, and it's the best. Well, DB2,
> Oracle, and Informix Foundation.2000 are comparable in performance. Note
> these are all closed-source products.
>
> PostgreSQL is quite good, I've used it and I'm following the development
> of the 7.1 series. When Pg can do what I need it to do, I'll willingly
> ditch the resource- and money-hog called Oracle. But the bottom-line is,
> Pg cannot do all that I want it to do.
>
> Don't let me get started on MySQL.
>
> If you want "enterprise database" and "free beer" Sybase Adaptive Service
> Enterprise 11.0.3.3 for Linux is free-as-in-beer. Note that the latest
> version of ASE is 12.4 so 11.x is pretty old (1997 vintage). But free as
> in beer.
>
> Unfortunately ASE versions < 12.x don't have row-locking (so they're worse
> off than MySQL-current in concurrency), they don't support >2Kbytes per
> row of scalar data (so no VARCHAR(4000) for you..) and they have serious
> issues with storage of non-scalar data like BLOB's e.g. you can't index a
> blob and it's stored separately from scalar data in the same row.
>
> All in all, I'm not sold on Sybase. Even if it's free. Between ASE 11.x
> and Pg 7.1, I'd go with Pg, no questions there.
>
> There's another option: SAPDB. SAPDB (produced and open-sourced by SAP the
> Big German Software Company) is a code-fork of Adabas D, which is a
> well-regarded mainframe database. SAPDB is GPL now. I haven't had the time
> to try it or bench it though.
>
>
>
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