[Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]
| От | Lamar Owen |
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| Тема | [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database] |
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| Msg-id | 38752575.FBCD36B1@wgcr.org обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]
(The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database] (darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)) |
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[Ok, I've been in touch with the author of the 'First Major Open Source Database' article. Here's what he wants to do. Let me know what you think, and correct any misinformation I may have fed him.] -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 -------- Original Message -------- From: Doc Searls <doc@searls.com> Subject: Re: First Major Open Source Database To: Jason Kroll <hyena@ssc.com> CC: mlr@ssc.com, lamar.owen@wgcr.org To move this along quickly, I suggest this as a sidebar we can run as a table in the piece at http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/010.html ... ---------------- Credit where due Since this interview went up, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Some readers, however, have urged us to give full credit to the other open source databases that are already out there and have prior claims to the "major" label. The strongest urgings have come from PostgreSQL developers, who have provided us with some points and links that we are happy to pass along here. The points: - University Ingres, developed starting in 1977, qualifies for the 'First Major Open Source Database' honor. Ingres is the direct ancestor of PostgreSQL. - PostgreSQL is at version 6.5.3, and has been open source since the beginning. "The development is very open, the developers friendly, and the code is improving by leaps and bounds," writes Lamar Owen, RPM Package Maintainer with the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. He says "PostgreSQL has shipped with RedHat Linux as part of the 'Official Boxed Set' since RedHat 5.0." He also recommends comparing RDBMSes by the "ACID criteria." These are: "Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability." - Hacking database code is not lightweight work. "Kernel hacking is not a walk in the park, nor is GUI hacking, library hacking, or any other tool hacking," Owen says, "But, database hacking is a league unto itself....The learning curve for doing back-end database development is the steepest of any project of which I am aware." Here are two useful links: - The freshmeat.net appindex entry for databases <http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/daemons/database.html> - PostgreSQL.org's comparison chart <http://www.postgresql.org> Alert us to more and we'll put them here. -- Doc Searls ------------- Here is the same thing, in HTML: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Credit Where Due</title></head> <body> <h2>Credit where due</h2> <p>Since this interview went up, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Some readers, however, have urged us to give full credit to the other open source databases that are already out there and have prior claims to the "major" label. The strongest urgings have come from PostgreSQL developers, who have provided us with some points and links that we are happy to pass along here.</p> <p>The points:</p> <p>— University Ingres, developed starting in 1977, qualifies for the 'First Major Open Source Database' honor. Ingres is the direct ancestor of PostgreSQL.</p> <p>— PostgreSQL is at version 6.5.3, and has been open source since the beginning. "The development is very open, the developers friendly, and the code is improving by leaps and bounds," writes Lamar Owen, RPM Package Maintainer with the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. He says "PostgreSQL has shipped with RedHat Linux as part of the 'Official Boxed Set' since RedHat 5.0." He also recommends comparing RDBMSes by the "ACID criteria." These are: "Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability."</p> <p>— Hacking database code is not lightweight work. "Kernel hacking is not a walk in the park, nor is GUI hacking, library hacking, or any other tool hacking," Owen says, "But, database hacking is a league unto itself....The learning curve for doing back-end database development is the steepest of any project of which I am aware."</p> <p>Here are two useful links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http:/www.freshmeat.net/ppindex/aemons/atabase.html">The freshmeat.net appindex entry for databases</a> <li><a href="http:/www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL.org's comparison chart</a> </ul> <p>Alert us to more and we'll put themhere.</p> <p>— Doc Searls</body> </html> ---------- Does that work? If so, let's get it up. Doc, in the basement of Moscone, in the surreal Macworld where Apple still, amazingly, lives. ---------- Doc Searls Senior Editor, Linux Journal doc@ssc.com http://www.linuxjournal.com Office: 544 Oak Park Way, Emerald Hills, CA 94062-4038 Phone: (650) 361-1324 Cell: (206) 849-9586 Fax: (650) 361-1348 ----------
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