Interbase - Firebird's predecessor use mvvc
"Justin Clift" <justin_at_postgresql.org> wrote in message
news:3E6C5D9C.1090605_at_postgresql.org...
> DA Morgan wrote:
> > Guido Stepken wrote:
> <snip>
> > Apparently copying the design of the Oracle counts as doing something
not
> > done by "traditional" database systems. Nothing like marketing folks to
lack
> > in integrity. If Oracle isn't a "traditional" database system ... I'd
like
> > to know what is.
>
> Hey, not fair! Don't put us in the same box as *Oracle's* marketing
> department.
>
> As you quoted, it says "superior to most commercial database systems".
> ^^^^
>
> The "most" word is kind of important to the sentence here. :)
>
> Both PostgreSQL and Oracle use MVCC. Don't think other commercial
> systems have moved to an MVCC based approach yet (if ever). From
> memory, other Open Source databases (FireBird) also use an MVCC based
> approach now too.
>
>
> > The day PostgreSQL and Oracle killer? I'd check the label on the
> > medication. ;-)
>
> As always, it's best to correctly choose the product to suit the need.
> There are places where PostgreSQL is faster and/or scales better on a
> single server, and there are instead places where PITR is needed thus
> PostgreSQL isn't yet an option.
>
>
> > Not that it is a bad product. But anytime they get in Larry or Bill's
way
> > ... they'll do to them what was done to Fox and Informix.
>
> Sure. The Oracle marketing teams will use their um... high-integrity
> tactics... to encourage people to move to Oracle from the alternatives.
>
> Not sure how Oracle's marketing teams are going to work against a
> product based on a no-profit-needed-in-order-to-thrive business model
> though. Pretty sure we're going to find out though in the next few years.
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
> > Daniel Morgan
>
> --
> "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
> who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
> first group; there was less competition there."
> - Indira Gandhi
>
Received on Wed Mar 19 2003 - 15:40:16 CST
