On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Thomas Løcke wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Andy wrote:
>> Skype, perhaps the largest telephony app in the world, uses Postgresql.
>>
>> Here's some info on their postgresql usage:
>>
>> http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-billion-u
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Andy wrote:
> Skype, perhaps the largest telephony app in the world, uses Postgresql.
>
> Here's some info on their postgresql usage:
>
> http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-billion-users
> https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/DbProjects/Sky
homas Løcke wrote:
> From: Thomas Løcke
> Subject: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft SQL server
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 2:47 PM
> Anybody know of any recent
> comparisons made between the two?
>
> I'm in the process of buying
Greg Smith wrote on 02.05.2010 01:16:
Scott Ribe wrote:
PG's locking scheme, MVCC, basically precludes certain specific
optimizations that means a small number of very specific queries don't
perform as well, while at the same time it means that throughput with
multiple simultaneous connections s
Merlin Moncure writes:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Thomas Løcke
> wrote:
>> Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
>>
>> I'm in the process of buying a new telephony related software suite,
>
> if you are writing stuff in C/C++, doing significant coding INSIDE the
>
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Craig Ringer
wrote:
>
> I'd be looking at management, reliability, backup, integration into the
> rest of the infrastructure, product longevity, support, etc. Performance
> you can always throw hardware at.
And given the relatively high costs of a MSSQL installatio
On 02/05/10 02:47, Thomas Løcke wrote:
> I've not been able to convince them to send me some actual benchmark
> numbers, which actually should turn on quite a few alarms, come to
> think about it. :o)
Is performance really your #1 criterion anyway?
I'd be looking at management, reliability, bac
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 20:47 +0200, Thomas Løcke wrote:
-->Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
I'm in the process of buying a new telephony related software suite,
and I'm getting mixed advice. Some say that MSSQL is _much_
better/faster than PostgreSQL, and others say th
On May 1, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> SQL Server uses MVCC too as of their 2005 release, implemented with row
> versioning similarly to Postgres. The main non-MVCC holdout at this point is
> DB2.
Funny, I've ported to even later versions than that, but missed the change.
Well, OK, I
Scott Ribe wrote:
PG's locking scheme, MVCC, basically precludes certain specific optimizations
that means a small number of very specific queries don't perform as well, while
at the same time it means that throughput with multiple simultaneous
connections scales extremely well with multiple p
On May 1, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Thomas Løcke wrote:
> The
> sales-people all bang on about MSSQL being the superior choice, and
> PostgreSQL being a "toy compared to the Microsoft RDBMS".
This is complete bullshit.
I say that as someone who spent years using MS SQL Server, and who very much
enjoye
Thomas Løcke wrote:
Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
for purely SQL, I prefer Postgres by a wide margin.But, MS SQL
Server comes with a whole infrastructure that includes a lot of powerful
tools, like replication, data extraction and translation, active
di
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Thomas Løcke wrote:
> Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
>
> I'm in the process of buying a new telephony related software suite,
> and I'm getting mixed advice. Some say that MSSQL is _much_
> better/faster than PostgreSQL, and others say
On Sat, 1 May 2010, Thomas Løcke wrote:
Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
A Google search will turn up a lot of comparisons.
I'm in the process of buying a new telephony related software suite, and
I'm getting mixed advice. Some say that MSSQL is _much_ better/fa
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Løcke wrote:
> Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
>
> I'm in the process of buying a new telephony related software suite,
> and I'm getting mixed advice. Some say that MSSQL is _much_
> better/faster than PostgreSQL, and others say
Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
I'm in the process of buying a new telephony related software suite,
and I'm getting mixed advice. Some say that MSSQL is _much_
better/faster than PostgreSQL, and others say the opposite.
The vendor is more or less indifferent, with a
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