Greg Smith wrote:
> Greg Williamson wrote:
> > Our tests -- very much oriented at postGIS found Oracle to be between 5
> > and 15% _faster_ depending on the specifics of the task. We decided to go
> > with postgres given the price difference (several hundred thousand dollars 
> > for
> > Oracle in the configuration we needed vs. zip for postgres -- we already had
> > trained postgres DBAs).
> >   
> 
> Can always throw the licensing savings toward larger hardware too; $100K 
> buys a pretty big server nowadays.  At the FAA's talk about their 
> internal deployment of PostgreSQL:  
> https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/east/talks/faa_airports_gis_and_postgresql
> 
> They were reporting that some of their difficult queries were 
> dramatically faster on PostgreSQL; I vaguely recall one of them was 100X 
> the speed it ran under Oracle Spatial.  It was crazy.  As always this 
> sort of thing is very workload dependent.  There are certainly queries 
> (such as some of the ones from the TPC-H that big DB vendors optimize 
> for) that can be 100X faster on Oracle too.

The FAA reported something like that at PG East about Oracle vs.
Postgres performance with GIS data.

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