From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | 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: | 2010-07-30 00:04:28 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTi=BevYZOSR+CPhcmfXsR2wdmbNhKktZyj-H14Ft@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> 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).
>>
>
> Can always throw the licensing savings toward larger hardware too; $100K
> buys a pretty big server nowadays.
Hear hear! You can get a quad x 12 core (48 cores total) server with
128G ram and 32 15k6 hard drives for well under $25k nowadays. For
$50k or so you can throw 100 hard drives at the problem.
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