I'm curious how PostgreSQL compares to Oracle in terms
of stability and speed. My company is looking into
alternative database software for our product but we
need to know if it's stable enough for our needs.
Our current requirements list for a good Database
software application are the
Tony Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our current requirements list for a good Database
software application are the following.
1. Stability - It can survive power outages.
Check.
2. Speed - We're only going to perform very basic
read and write transactions. Some tables are rather
Hi Tony,
PostgreSQL is *very* stable. Individual backends can be killed off by
weird SQL queries that trigger a known bug (not very many, and always
being fixed), but that is very very rare, and nothing which 99.999% of
normal SQL queries will get even close to.
There are a few 3rd party
