On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:48:23AM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote: > Herbert Poetzl wrote: > >yeah, well, that's the beauty of proprietary services ... > >btw, postgresql is a very fine alternative to oracle, and > >this is not just hogwash told by folks who never used > >oracle before ... but of course YMMV > > Sadly, Postgres is missing these important features; > > - bitmap indexes > - OLAP query re-writing
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ... but: New Enterprise Features in 7.4 * Hash aggregation in memory to make data warehousing and OLAP queries up to 20 times faster; (they are now at 8.0.1 or later ...) > Without those, our database would run like cold treacle. well, there are a bunch of SQL 'features' not present in Oracle either ... so it really depends on the requirements best, Herbert > > Sam. > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
