RE: EnterpriseDB

From: Richard J. Goulet <rgoulet_at_kanbay.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:38:30 -0500
Message-ID: <C3EE2ADD31ACF64DAB1B236044A1968D5CE714@miaexc01.kanbay.com>

How well is it instrumented? Not nearly as well as Oracle, but for some reason I never had a real problem with SQL execution since PG uses a cost based optimizer exclusively.

Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA

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From: Stefan Knecht [mailto:knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:31 AM To: Richard J. Goulet
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: EnterpriseDB

But how well are those open source databases instrumented ? How deep under the hood can you look when stuff doesn't run as fast as you'd like it to (other than reading the source code to try and figure out what's going on) ? For me that is one of the most important features of an rdbms database - and Oracle's instrumentation kicks butt :)

Stefan

On 2/21/07, Richard J. Goulet <rgoulet_at_kanbay.com> wrote:

Open Ingres for sure, and Firebird.

Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA

	45 Bartlett St  Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA
	Tel.: 508.573.1978 |Fax:  508.229.2019 | Cell:508.742.5795

	RGoulet_at_kanbay.com
	
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	From: Milen Kulev [mailto:makulev_at_gmx.net] 
	Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:29 PM
	To: Richard J. Goulet
	Cc: 'Oracle-L List'
	Subject: RE: EnterpriseDB
	
	
	
	Dick, apart from MySQL and PG , what are the other (serious)
offerings ? 
	In my opinion thereare not so many ...
	 
	Regrads. Milen  

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		To: Mark Strickland; ineyman_at_perceptron.com
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		Subject: RE: EnterpriseDB
		
		
		Agree, I was asked to "pick my own poison" from the open

source world a few years ago, before EnterpriseDB exited. If you are going to use an open source db I'd highly recommend PostGreSql over ALL of the other offerings out there, particularly MySql.

Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA

		45 Bartlett St  Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA
		Tel.: 508.573.1978 |Fax:  508.229.2019 |

Cell:508.742.5795

RGoulet_at_kanbay.com

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From: Mark Strickland [mailto:strickland.mark_at_gmail.com]

		Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:30 AM
		To: ineyman_at_perceptron.com
		Cc: Richard J. Goulet; rjfeighery_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L
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		Subject: Re: EnterpriseDB
		
		
		We use Postgres for a small application and I evaluated

EnterpriseDB earlier this year for its replication functionality so that we could replicate transactions from the primary Production database server to a failover server. I did a basic functional test, not a smoke test. I was able to install it and set up the replication without much heartache. Their technical support was quite good especially compared to a similar company's product that we evaluated.

Mark Strickland Seattle, WA

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