Re: PostgreSQL x Oracle

On 10 Feb 2003 at 13:41, Karel Zak wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:50:13AM -0300, Marcelo Pereira wrote:
>
> > What about speed?? Is Oracle faster than PostgreSQL?? Why?? I believe
> > that some day the PostgreSQL development team will improve the engine and
> > it will be as fast as Oracle.
>
>  Speed? Use MySQL :-) I think real relation database use is not about
>  speed only -- it means speed is not always most important argument. I
>  sure people use Oracle for the others features.

Not too good of an argument. It gives an impression that postgresql community
want to hide behind features and claim that speed is not necessary. Sounds very
familiar with mysql propaganda that "transactions are not necessary because we
don't have it"

Admit it. Psotgresql is not as fast as oracle neither as feature rich as
oracle. but at the same time, it is not as ridiculous as oracle at times.

 Besides the speed/feature difference with oracle is small enough to fit 80-20
model. 80% people using 20% of features. Those numbers are from desktop apps.
but the principle still holds..

And yes, I didn't miss the smiley but still want to clarify the things in case
somebody is naïve enough..

Bye
 Shridhar

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