Re: Fyracle?

Some comments:

> I've just been sent this link by our DBA (pro MySQL but even more
> Anti-Postgres):

I can see skript kiddies preferring MySQL, but a DBA? Time for a
credentials review.

Firebird is a good small database (small resource footprint) that handles
small databases with many users well. It doesn't scale well due to its
single file data storage implementation. A good disk farm is mostly wasted
on it.

I think that comparing Firebird to Oracle functionality can only be done in
an extremely superficial manner because of the difference in scalability.
So they implemented PL/SQL. Whoopee. Get the source for GNAT and do it
for PostgreSQL, if anybody cares.

Rick

pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote on 06/06/2005 05:12:05 AM:

> I've just been sent this link by our DBA (pro MySQL but even more
> Anti-Postgres):
>
> http://www.janus-software.com/fb_fyracle.html
>
> I want to know how they've calculated the numbers that they're created
> those pie graphs from. The only thing I can think of that Postgres
> doesn't have for 'transactions' is two-phase commit, and yet it's
> given it 1/2 functionality.
>
> Anybody else care to comment?
>
> --
>
> Russ
>
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