Re: Is Oracle faster/easier than mySQL
From: jgar the jorrible <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:02:41 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <f6c2289a-98b9-458d-8c9e-0074e2198a2b_at_a39g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 10, 3:04 pm, Thomas Kellerer <YQDHXVLMU..._at_spammotel.com> wrote:
> jgar the jorrible, 10.03.2009 21:06:
>
> > I had a particular postgres site in mind when I mentioned how
> > expensive free db's can be.
>
> Would you mind sharing that information?
>
> Or at least some "raw data" like transaction rate, number of concurrent sessions, size (in rows) of the tables etc? And maybe what exactly the problems were you are referring to? I would be very much interested.
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:02:41 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <f6c2289a-98b9-458d-8c9e-0074e2198a2b_at_a39g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 10, 3:04 pm, Thomas Kellerer <YQDHXVLMU..._at_spammotel.com> wrote:
> jgar the jorrible, 10.03.2009 21:06:
>
> > I had a particular postgres site in mind when I mentioned how
> > expensive free db's can be.
>
> Would you mind sharing that information?
>
> Or at least some "raw data" like transaction rate, number of concurrent sessions, size (in rows) of the tables etc? And maybe what exactly the problems were you are referring to? I would be very much interested.
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
Sorry, no can do. Would if I could. The overall expense seemed out of whack, if I'm going to walk into problems, I need to see a way out. I don't mean to say anything bad about postgres, just pointing out redeveloping wheels can be a very large and unnecessary expense.
jg
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