On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Sherborne <msherbo...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> In regards to the MySQL vs Postgres Holy war that some guy in this thread
> started...
>
> Back in the 90's we had a project that was receiving around 1,000,000
> insertions a week, and generating a lot of reports. Originally mysql, mysql
> died (as in completely crashed) when trying to run reports (around the 8
> million row time). We switched to MSSQL, which managed to crash the entire
> machine it was hosted on when running reports. We tried Oracle, but cost
> became prohibitive. System runs nicely with Postgresql, and last I checked
> had like 160 million rows in the horriblest table (with cron jobs to do
> hourly propogation of the records into summary tables).
>
>
Oh well, if we are going to talk about performance, then I'd rather go for
InterSystems Caché (which provides SQL and objects already, btw). The
learning curve is very steep and it's proprietary, though.
--
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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