I'm a Postgres supporter so I'll tell you some of my perceived Postgres benefits and then you can pick that apart :)
* Postgres has a BSD license which makes it easier to work with commercially than MySQL sometimes * Postgres can perform better in a SAN configuration due to its asynchronous I/O implementation, in general Postgres scales up better than MySQL * Postgres can be configured to work with the mandatory security features of selinux (http://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/), I saw a talk at LCA last year where the presenter used selinux to provide column masks over sensitive data * Postgres has a rich set of extension languages for working with the DB including PL/Ruby, handy for those large batch ops and for the ports from Oracle * Postgres has a rich type system and sql syntax (erm I'm prepared to be corrected but I believe both are superior to MySQL's) * PostGIS (http://postgis.refractions.net/) is a great piece of software None of these makes a damn bit of difference if you're in many rails apps :) I started using Postgres because the SQL was closer to Oracle's. Rob 2010/1/25 Cameron Barrie <[email protected]>: > > On 25/01/2010, at 5:38 PM, Xavier Shay wrote: > >> On 25/01/10 12:35 PM, Jason Stirk wrote: >>> ... Deployment database? >>> MySQL, recently played a bit with Postgres (although I'm still unimpressed) >> This is contrary to most opinion I've heard, so I'm interested in hearing >> more. > Me too actually. >> >> Xav >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
