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From: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@kostyrka.org>
To: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: David Tokmatchi <david.tokmatchi@gmail.com>
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Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] Postgres VS Oracle
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:29:42 +0200
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> Certainly, but can one expect to get a realistic answer to an, "is
> Oracle fearing something" question on he PostgreSQL list? Or was it
> just a backhanded attempt at pushing the topic again? My vote is for
> the latter; it served no purpose other than to push the
> competitiveness topic again.
Well, I'm a cynic at heart, really. So there was no bad intend behind it.
And it was a nice comment, because I would base it on my personal
experiences with certain vendors, it wouldn't be near as nice.
The original question was about comparisons between PG and Oracle.
Now, I could answer this question from my personal experiences with the
product and support. That would be way more stronger worded than my
small cynic question.
Another thing, Joshua posted a guesstimate that PG can compete in 90-95%
cases with Oracle. Because Oracle insists on secrecy, I'm somehow
inclined to believe the side that talks openly. And while I don't like
to question Joshua's comment, I think he overlooked one set of problems,
namely the cases where Oracle is not able to compete with PG. It's hard
to quantify how many of these cases there are performance-wise, well,
because Oracle insists on that silly NDA, but there are clearly cases
where PG is superior.
Andreas
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