Re: Differences between Oracle and Progress

I'll second this. Progress is a different animal, not to be confused with Postgres at all. I was saddled with the unpleasant task of upgrading our v6 Progress db to v9 just so we could move it off of SCO onto Linux for some legacy inventory application. That's more Progress than I even want to know again.

Don.

On 3/20/07, ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net <ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Progress is not postgre. Its a completely different project. Progress is not
> a SQL database. They write regular linear code. I was on a project for a
> couple of years with a progress element. The front end was in progress code
> that generated sql. You can also use a progress database. It uses a 4GL
> programming language that looked pretty simple.
>
> they are two totally different things. Progress seems to have a niche
> market. They don't do any advertising. The biggets problem with progress is
> that there are not alot of progress developers. so even in an urban area you
> are probably going to have to bring people in from other parts of the
> country.
>
> its not comparable. Progress is not in the same league of database as
> oracle. Also, progress only seems to function acceptably in OLTP. I sat down
> with the progress DBA and we tested some full table scans. The performance
> was terrible even for a small set of rows.
>
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Igor Neyman" <ineyman_at_perceptron.com>
>
> > Take a look at the paper called "Comparison of Oracle, MySQL and
> > PostgreSQL DBMS" :
> >
> http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.html
> >
> > And this one:
> > http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/
> >
> > Igor
> >
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> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:15 AM
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> > Subject: Differences between Oracle and Progress
> >
> > Dear List
> > I have been tasked to produce a list showing the major differences
> > between Oracle and a Progress database.
> > May you please help me with websites, docs and pe rsonal research info,
> > and experience that you might have working with Progress.
> > We are currently using Oracle 9.2 for our application.
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