Oracle and DB2 also have a lot more kitchen sink features
sorta like the developers were bored and the marketing department
thought it would sound good to be able to say that the database
had a built in message queue and java vm etc....
If you work at a company that spends a lot of money and uses a lot
of third party aplications on top of the database it's hard to
avoid using one of the mainstream ones.
If you work at a company that tends to use things like linux or freebsd
and you have developers who write in things like C, perl, php, even java
etc.. then postgres is almost a no brainer.
Alex.
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> Stephen Livesey <ste@exact3ex.co.uk> wrote:
> >Please could someone explain what are the major differences between
> >PostgreSQL, Oracle 8i, DB2 and MySQL.
>
> Of these, MySQL lacks a number of features associated with "serious"
> database development; see e.g.
> http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html
>
> The major difference between PostgreSQL and Oracle 8i or DB2 is that
> PostgreSQL is free software. All of them are deployed for serious
> application development.
>
> HTH,
> Ray
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