From: "Obnoxio The Clown" Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Subject: Re: World's No.1 SQL server!! PostgreSQL defeated Oracle, MS SQLserver, DB2, Sybase, Interbase....!!!! Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:56:40 GMT Organization: Mailing List Gateway Lines: 29 Message-ID: <8ujnpm$1am$1@news.xmission.com> Reply-To: "Obnoxio The Clown" NNTP-Posting-Host: www.iiug.org X-Trace: news.xmission.com 973955702 1366 206.175.175.254 (11 Nov 2000 15:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Nov 2000 15:15:02 GMT X-List-Gateway: informix-list From: David Fitzjarrell > >Funny, the 'benchmarks' don't mention Oracle at all, just 'Proprietary >1' and 'Proprietary 2'; apparently they didn't run tests against Oracle >but they're trying to extrapolate the results to include all major >RDBMS vendors. I'll bet this same crap is in the Sybase and Informix >newsgroups as well. It is all over the net. I think he benchmarked against Oracle and SQLServer, but using some highly rigged and narrowly focussed benchmark. >Generate some results that prove PostgreSQL is better than Oracle. >Then come back and blow your horn, if you can. Well, *my* gripe is that he waffled some tosh about "all standard benchmarks". If it isn't at www.tpc.org, then it's not a standard benchmark. For once, I find myself on the same side as an Oracle bigot. Scary. :-) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.