Re: PostgreSQL vs Oracle

From: Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1(at)burntmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs Oracle
Date: 2008-12-22 03:31:33
Message-ID: 494F0A15.8060708@burntmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance

Victor Nawothnig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for some recent and hopefully genuine comparisons between
> Oracle and PostgreSQL regarding their performance in large scale
> applications. Tests from real world applications would be preferable
> but not required. Also differentiations in different areas (i.e.
> different data types, query structures, clusters, hardware, etc.)
> might be helpful as well.

Victor, Oracle expressly forbids, in their license agreement, anyone
from publishing performance comparisons between Oracle and any other
product. So you will rarely find anyone willing to publicly provide you
any performance numbers.

Difference in data structures, etc, are fairly easy to determine.
Anyone can read the Oracle documentation.

--
Guy Rouillier

In response to

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Gregory Stark 2008-12-22 06:56:24 Re: dbt-2 tuning results with postgresql-8.3.5
Previous Message Scott Carey 2008-12-21 20:08:36 Query planner plus partitions equals very bad plans, again