On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:24:47PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > And if it it were, it's at the rock bottom. With free and open source > products like PostgreSQL and MySQL, why settle for less?
These free RDBMSes are in no way comparable to Oracle, DB/2, or any of those other big enterprise RDBMSes that cost a lot of moolah. None of them fully follow the ACID criteria for RDBMses the way the proprietary ones do; the closest at this point is PostgreSQL which is able to provide atomicity, consistency, and isolation, but does not provide perfect durability yet. Neither of the free RDBMses also have anything near the scalability their proprietary counterparts do yet; oracle is easily capable of managing terabyte sized data sets for instance... -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.ph.inter.net/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
