I found today that postgres EnterpriseDB supports Amazon EC2. On a shoestring budget EnterpriseDB is just as much an option as Oracle ;-(
So, question is what makes EnterpriseDB more suitable for the cloud than plain vanilla postgreSQL? Anyone? With best regards. Sanjay. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Harald Armin Massa[legacy] < haraldarminma...@gmail.com> wrote: > John, > > >> Is it possible to host postgreSQL on Amazon's cloud? What are the issues > >> involved? > > > > in theory, sure. anything is possible. > > > > in practice, as I understand it from my relatively superficial reading, > fast > > storage is fairly expensive and limited in the EC2 compute cloud, and > also > > not real persistent > > That also was my understanding. But just today a message from AWS > dropped in my inbox: > > "....Starting today, you can now launch Amazon EC2 running Windows or > SQL Server instances in the the EU Region, ...." > > So there must be some way to run a relational database with EC2, as > the storage requirements of SQL Server and PostgreSQL are not THAT > different. > > Harald > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > GHUM Harald Massa > persuadere et programmare > Harald Armin Massa > Spielberger Straße 49 > 70435 Stuttgart > 0173/9409607 > no fx, no carrier pigeon > - > LASIK good, steroids bad? >
