| From: | Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)siriusit(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Comparison of Oracle and PostgreSQL full text search |
| Date: | 2010-07-29 09:03:39 |
| Message-ID: | 4C5143EB.5010107@siriusit.co.uk |
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Greg Williamson wrote:
> Our tests -- very much oriented at postGIS found Oracle to be between 5
> and 15% _faster_ depending on the specifics of the task. We decided to go
> with postgres given the price difference (several hundred thousand dollars for
> Oracle in the configuration we needed vs. zip for postgres -- we already had
> trained postgres DBAs).
Interesting. Do you have information about the versions of PostGIS/GEOS
that you were using? Of course we'd be very interested to see examples
of test cases with bad performance on the postgis-users list so that we
can improve them.
ATB,
Mark.
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Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect
PostgreSQL - PostGIS
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