RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-19 Thread Tarun Upadhyay
- From: Raj Mathur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/16/2003 5:38 PM To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-19 Thread Tarun Upadhyay
Did some research over the weekend. First of all some good news: Heavy duty sites that run Postgres include; A) RubyForge (rubyforge.org). They have 300K records. Not too many but moderately high. B) .org domain. c) sourceforge used to run postgres. AFAIK, they moved out because IBM made that a

Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-18 Thread Ambar Roy
The standard form of VACUUM is best used with the goal of maintaining a fairly level steady-state usage of disk space. The standard form finds old tuples and makes their space available for re-use within the table, but it does not try very hard to shorten the table file and return disk space to

Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-18 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ambar [snip]. Ambar So does VACUUM require the database to be taken offline? Or Ambar was this an issue with older versions of pgSQL? As I don't Ambar see the Geocrawler under

Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-17 Thread shantanu
Some more information, some numbers from mysql: http://www.mysql.com/information/features.html http://www.mysql.com/information/benchmarks-old.html regards shantanu On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:38:34 +0530, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ambar ==

Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-17 Thread shantanu
Please check http://formation.espacecourbe.com/choosing/dbc_crashMe20001011.html and some comparision reports http://formation.espacecourbe.com/choosing/ Regards shantanu On 16 Oct 2003 12:15:25 +0530, Tarun Dua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:35, Ambar Roy wrote: Geocrawler

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-17 Thread Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva
Mathur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/16/2003 5:38 PM To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-16 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Surely NO...so we would certainly be interested to know some of your Ambar Biggest Internet Sites running on open source. Geocrawler use Postgres. Ambar Intresting thing about

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-15 Thread Tarun Dua
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 19:58, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva wrote: Hi Tarun, Let me make it very cleat that I don't have any hunch in open source and thats why I am in the list but my dear, facts are facts. (Is Amazon.com running on open source (database)? Is eBay.com running on open

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-15 Thread supreet
I do'nt know for sure but as far as my memory goes. sf.net started of with postgres and then moved on to use DB2 from IBM because of scaling issues with postgres. -- supreet [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-14 Thread Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva
: Tarun Dua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 10/14/2003 2:16 PM To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list Cc: Subject: RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:13, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva wrote: The strategy of employing

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-14 Thread Raj Mathur
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RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-13 Thread Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva
Dear Tarun, Comparison of PostgreSQL (open source) vis-a-vis Oracle (commercial) is UNFAIR! The subject *should* be PostgeSQL vs Foxpro Ooops MySQL. PostgreSQL no doubt is a good database BUT you can't match Oracle's superior technology. Its in the business for the past 27 years (PostgreSQL

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-10 Thread Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva
Hi Tarun, I think you are trying to compare a Apple with a Water Melon. But any case if you are really facing a real time scenario, please make it clear. what exactly the application you are running and how many concurrent user you are expecting to be there as concurrency is a

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

2003-10-10 Thread Tarun Upadhyay
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 2:32 AM To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list; The Linux-Delhi mailing list Subject: RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle Hi Tarun, I think you are trying to compare a Apple with a Water Melon. But any case if you are really facing a real time scenario, please make