From: | "Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina" <oliveiros(dot)cristina(at)marktest(dot)pt> |
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To: | "LWATCDR" <lwatcdr(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Not to start a flame war but what does Oracle have that Postgresql does not? |
Date: | 2011-03-23 14:12:25 |
Message-ID: | 7CF345310F5443F3BC4079125A0E809C@marktestcr.marktest.pt |
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Just 512MB of ram?!
Holy cow!
I've always heard that Oracle has several features and capabilities that
PostGres lacks (and it is infinitely more expensive, too), but I just worked
6 years ago and for a short period with Oracle so
I don't know how to fully answer your question.
But, I believe that Oracle can run a single query in multiple processors,
something that AFAIK PostGres is still unable to (Correct me if I'm wrong).
Best,
Oliveiros
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From: "LWATCDR" <lwatcdr(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:58 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Not to start a flame war but what does Oracle have that
Postgresql does not?
>I have used Postgres a bit and actually use it as the back end for a
> program we use at my office. Truth is that it has worked so well that
> I have not had to mess with it for years at a time and then only to
> move to a new server or update. I have no experience with Oracle at
> all. Since I work with small datasets of only a few hundred thousand
> records to a million records and only a handful of tables Postgres
> does everything we need here. Right now it is supporting 50 users and
> running on a P3 600 with a single hard drive and 512 MB of ram. Yes
> the response time is "human instant".
> So I am wondering what features does Postgres lack to equal Oracle or
> DB2? This is more for my own satisfaction since I can not imagine any
> uses here that wouldn't run on a modern hexcore server with a few
> gigabytes of ram and a raid of SATA drives.
>
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