Re: Slight OT : Size of MS SQLServer Databases

On Monday 28 January 2002 03:45, Marin Dimitrov wrote:
> maybe u could consider some free databases?
>
> of course the performance, functionality and the ease of use won't be
> comparable to MS SQL but many sites use such databases quite successfully

Actually, the most popular of the free databases is mySql, which is likely faster than MS Sql. It's faster than Oracle.

Jared

>
> if u consider Postgres SQL and take a look at
> http://www.pgsql.com/user_gallery/ u'll see production databases ranging
> from 10GB to 150GB
>
> if u consider SAP DB then u may take a look at
> http://www.sap.com/solutions/technology/benchmark/HTML/SD_2_tier_4x.htm
> which contains some outdated benchmarks for SAP R/3 running on different
> databases and u'll see that SAP DB outperforms MS SQL in some
> configurations
>
>
> hth,
>
> Marin
>
>
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