Обсуждение: Fyracle?
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
Russ Brown wrote: > 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. Made the figures up presumably. It's a sales document to push their oracle-on-firebird system, rather than a technical evaluation. They'd be stupid to pick a scoring system that didn't leave a clear gap between them and the competition. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
On 6/6/05, Russ Brown <pickscrape@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > That is a bit harsh. I suppose the reviewer thinks ultra-slow cross-machine transactions that have to be repaired by hand are really fun. ;) > Anybody else care to comment? > Their PL bullet point looks like postgres should have at least a partial circle (..."in which languages? PL/SQL or similar, Java, C/C++?...similar enough to your current database to allow for a fast (automated) process"...). -- Mike Rylander mrylander@gmail.com GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org
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@postgresql.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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)
Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com escreveu: > Some comments: > > > Firebird is a good small database (small resource footprint) that handles > small databases with many users well. In the hospital I work we have a 4GB database with 50 users connected running 24/7 (her I stop it 2.5 hours per month) >It doesn't scale well due to its > single file data storage implementation. A good disk farm is mostly wasted > on it. > You can partitionate a database with multiple archives. > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > Geraldo Lopes de Souza