Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Yuck! Have a cup of tea please. I intend to help both debian and ingres by packaging this beast, not start just-another-flamewar on which dbms has the longest toes.
Ingres is arguably the oldest dbms in operation, and probably one of the most mature ones at that. It's been in production since the 1960's and was Michael Stonebrakers brainchild before he initiated postquel which led to postgres. Ingres is a vastly scalable, ansi SQL-92 compatible database server. It has a C2 security clearance and has been in used in mission critical deployments such as aerospace route-planning for Lufthansa for decades. It was bought by Relational Technologies, then by CA, and now spun off into a GPL product maintained and supported by the Ingres Corporation. They are currently stil struggling to embrace the FOSS strategy as part of their corporate culture, so the FOSS community surrounding it is still kind of meagre. It can do large-scale clustering. It can even cluster hybrid databases such as oracle, mssql, sybase, etc in a single cluster. It needs a proprietary extension to do so though. It can do multi-master replication using a two-phase commit setup to ensure replication of transactions to all nodes. It can do updates on view of view of view... It can do table based, column based, and value based partitioning. Just some of the things that caught my attention, and by no means a definitive list. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
