If anyone is interested, I could answer the questions for Oracle and
you could add those, too.  Be interesting to see a chart like that
(that stays updated after releases) for a large assortment of
databases.

If we add a bunch of different databases, it might be easier to
manipulate if it was stored in a database.  MS-Access maybe?  ;-)

LewisC

--- Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Check it out here:
> 
> http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb
> 
> 
> When comparing in the grid the only major advantage FB has is
> probably 
> BLOB support.
> PG only suppports 1 gb while FB supports 32gb.  Bytea is pretty
> slow as 
> well when compared to the FB BLOB support.
> 
> The other area is Character sets and collation.  They support it at
> a 
> field level as well as the database.
> 
> Other than that I would say PG kicks butt.
> 
> If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as
> the 
> third column.
> 
> 
> Later,
> 
> Tony
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