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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open Source Database Routs Competition in New Benchmark From: "Poul L. Christiansen" <plc@faroenet.fo> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:17:46 +0100 Is "Uracle" called "Proprietary 1" or "Proprietary 2"? I can't remember :-) And which other RDBMS is proprietary? Could it be M$ql Server....? Hint, hint Poul L. Christiansen === Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open Source Database Routs Competition in New Benchmark From: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:26:25 +0100 (BST) On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, merlin wrote: > Given all this performance discussion, has anyone seen any > numbersregarding the speed of PostgreSQl vs Oracle? Oracle and MS SQL Server must have been the two "leading commercial RDBMSes" mentioned in the article. The licencing of both of those expressly forbids publishing benchmark results (including, we can probably assume from the wording of the article, even referring directly to such). That said, it would be nice to see some actual numbers and configurations for the postgresql end of things; What hardware was used? What versions of what system software? What OS tuning was done? What parameters were supplied to postgres? === Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open Source Database Routs Competition in New Benchmark Tests From: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:29:09 -0700 There are a thousand RDBMS products that might fall under that heading, the reason the names weren't published is that most commercial RDBMS product prohibit the publishing of benchmarks when you buy it. The guys that did this benchmark weren't trying to hide who it was just for the sake of hiding it, they really can't *legally* say. I know some people that have benchmarked Oracle and PostgreSQL... Oracle won, that's all I'll say.. People still need to use whatever RDBMS makes their life easier, one could make an argument for virtually all existing products (commercial or not) on that product's individual strengths and weaknesses. === Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open Source Database Routs Competition in New From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:30:21 -0700 At 06:17 PM 8/15/00 +0100, Poul L. Christiansen wrote: >Is "Uracle" called "Proprietary 1" or "Proprietary 2"? I can't remember :-) > >And which other RDBMS is proprietary? Could it be M$ql Server....? Informix, possibly, I know they have the restrictive clause regarding benchmarking in their contract. === Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open Source Database Routs Competition in New From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:04:59 -0700 At 01:24 AM 8/15/00 -0700, you wrote: > It's possible that all the test >really shows is that MySQL has a poor ODBC driver. It would have to be really, really bad for this to be the case. ===