Re: off to the farm to start new career ...
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:30:44 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2010.09.08.16.30.44_at_email.here.invalid>
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:33:23 +1000, Noons wrote:
> Yegawds! And the scary thing is that it is absolute reality! In fact,
> I'm surprised Stonebraker wasn't mentioned in there somewhere...
Stonebraker probably isn't web scale and he doesn't support sharding,
either. His VoltDB does look impressive, though. The company that I work
for is using Vertica, another brainchild of his, for DW purposes and
people are satisfied. It does what it promised to do and quickly. I am
doing a bit of PostgreSQL too, and it is a decent RDBMS system. Nowhere
near Oracle, of course, but the price is certainly right and it has been
around for a while.
Bottom line is that you don't need an 18-wheeler to bring home weekly
groceries. For Non-critical internal applications like HR stuff, internal
website and NFL pool, PostgreSQL is more than enough. It is even good
enough to take some simpler mission critical application, too.
-- http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Wed Sep 08 2010 - 11:30:44 CDT