On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Venkatraman S <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO (and lets face it with an open mind): Oracle's DB technology is > lightyears ahead of the other solutions in the market and i am not sure how > many lightyears it will take for others to reach that stature/customer base. > It's weird timing this, since I spent an idle hour looking at comparisons of MySQL and Oracle yesterday. From what I read, it seems that while MySQL will suffice for most database needs, it's not even in the same league as commercial offerings in terms of features, stability etc.
The spread of RDBMS offerings seems to be something like this: SQLite | MySql | PostgreSQL | ... | MS SQLServer (and others, I think Firebug?) | ... | Oracle The ellipses signifying that they're miles ahead of the competition. The articles I read were not from FOSS proponents, but rather from DBAs evaluating whether to use MySQL or Oracle, and the consensus (in the small sampling I checked out) was that MySql was ideal (because of pricing) for most needs, but Oracle was worth every penny (shocking considering howmany gazillion pennies it costs) if you need the features it provides. I don't have links now, but someone had claimed that the free alternatives are where Oracle was 20 years ago. Anyways, I'm way out of my depth, it's still fresh in my mind since I happened to read up on this while checking out some new music yesterday. -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
