Re: Feature comparison between Postgresql, Oracle and Mysql ?

From: Jan Gelbrich <j_gelbrich_at_westfalen-blatt.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:57:58 +0200
Message-ID: <an1hat$a65uo$1@ID-152732.news.dfncis.de>

Hi,

"Penang" <penang_at_catholic.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:2c89dd3e.0209270151.13e510d2_at_posting.google.com...
> Several years ago, someone did a feature-by-feature comparison of
> postgresql, mysql and oracle and put the result on the Net.

please, could You say if the URL is still alive and post it here ?

>
> That was several years ago.
>
> I wonder if anyone has done such a thing for the current versions of
> postgresql, mysql and oracle ?

... comparing Biplanes with Triple7 ...

>
> If so, where ?

... I and some other people asked similar questions (Oracle vs. DB2) in this NG some time ago ...
... there was no reasonable answer. In this NG most are in favor of Oracle, of course.

IMHO it just depends on Your targets for the database - and on Your pocket. MySQL is free and one of the *fastest* DBs. Oracle is one of the *safest*. Oracle and DB2 can store *Terabytes* of data - I doupt this for MySQL. PostgreSQL is coming closer to Oracle - Postgres´ P/SQL is almost identical with Oracles´ PL/SQL.
Not sure how much data space PostgreSQL can store.

This is just some overview.

Maybe some others have more insight into it.

Cheers

Jan Received on Fri Sep 27 2002 - 06:57:58 CDT