Oracle

[Bill Cavalieri]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:56 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Wiles
> But really that comparison is hardly just. Oracle is not cheap, but
> there is a lot more to Oracle than just the RDB, and there are other
> factors to consider than just size and distribution. However, I'd
> probably not recommend Oracle for a new implementation if MySQL or
> PostgreSQL could handle the data and load expected of the implementation.
> Including future needs. No sense in going with MySQL if you are expecting
> to get the outsourcing contract for Wal-Mart's inventory database.
> ;')

Let's not forget that CA recently released Ingres under a oss license.  Lot 
like postgres (since postgres forked from older version of ingres).

Ingres has some features that make it very attractive, high availability, 
clustering, table partitioning, parallel query's, etc....

I like postgres a lot, but find myself getting excited about ingres