Re: Choosing a right database

From: Seth Grimes <grimes_at_chele.cais.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:42:58 -0400
Message-ID: <37C4B7C2.85195989@chele.cais.net>

PostgresSQL isn't a mainstream product and in fact it's barely commericalized. It doesn't have the same "enterprise" features that contribute to technical and vendor reliability and scalability that the others have.

                                Seth

alla_at_sergey.com wrote:
>
> First of all, thanks a lot to all of you for your responses.
>
> It gave me a lot of information to get convinced that Oracle might be
> the better choice (sorry...)
>
> But I need to have one more question answered for our management.
>
> Their choices were Oracle, Informix and PostgreSQL.
>
> None of you mentioned PostgreSQL. I assume it was because PostgreSQL
> can't support such a huge database. But since I don't know anything
> about PostgreSQL, I would really appreciate if you could tell me what
> features (or lack of them) made you not mention this database
>
> Thanks again
>
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Seth Grimes Alta Plana database & Web / design & development grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-873-8225 Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 22:42:58 CDT