Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL

"Oracle = Saturn IV." ?!???

Perhaps they claim to be. More like a shuttle with pretensions. Oracle was utterly unable to support our web site. And then they wanted a truely preposterous sum for their wretched software.

Informix, on the other hand, has performed like, well, like a Saturn [which, by the way, the US could not build again ... apparently they lost the plans]. But it also costs a fair bit o' pocket change.

Now, maybe if we take a couple of Titan IIs and stack them on top of each other ...

Greg Williamson
DBA GlobeXplorer LLC

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Thu 9/18/2003 10:30 PM
To: scott.marlowe
Cc: Steve Crawford; Scott Holmes; PgSQL General ML
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

"scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> writes:
> ... Being honest and fair will win
> hearts and minds, and when they need the Saturn 4 instead of the Estes
> rocket, they'll remember who to come to.

I like this analogy, though maybe you've overstretched. Perhaps:

MySQL = Estes. Put in InnoDB, and you have a D engine ... but it's
still a model rocket.

Postgres = Titan II. Can boost LEO missions or small interplanetary
probes. Never mind its ICBM heritage ;-)

Oracle = Saturn IV. Can take you to the moon ... if you can afford
the price tag.

regards, tom lane

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