Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Steve Singer wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David Fetter wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote: >>> >>> Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. >> >> Can we get somebody from OSM to talk about this on the

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Singer
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David Fetter wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote: Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Can we get somebody from OSM to talk about this on the record? I've forwarded this request the to the OSM talk list. Hop

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote: > Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Can we get somebody from OSM to talk about this on the record? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: df

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Scott Marlowe escribió: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Peter Childs wrote: > > Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. > > On the news blog page it mentioned switching to MonetDB. I saw > nothing about pgsql there. Do they store it in pgsql for manipulation > then

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread Stephen Frost
* Scott Marlowe (scott.marl...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Peter Childs wrote: > > Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. > > On the news blog page it mentioned switching to MonetDB. I saw > nothing about pgsql there. Do they store it in pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread Stephen Frost
* Scott Marlowe (scott.marl...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Peter Childs wrote: > > Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. > > On the news blog page it mentioned switching to MonetDB. I saw > nothing about pgsql there. Do they store it in pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Peter Childs wrote: > Hmm Interestingly OSM have just switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. On the news blog page it mentioned switching to MonetDB. I saw nothing about pgsql there. Do they store it in pgsql for manipulation then export to MonetDB? -- Sent via pg

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Childs
2009/3/19 Shane Ambler : > Thomas Kellerer wrote: >> >> Harald Armin Massa, 17.03.2009 15:00: >>> >>> That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really >>> large actually? >> >> I recently attended and Oracle training by Tom Kyte and he said (partially >> joking though) that a d

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-23 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Monday 23. March 2009, Juan Pereira wrote: >On March 20, I asked for help in the Newbie MySQL forum, got no > answers. > >Then the forum administrator moved the post to the PostgreSQL MySQL > forum -a forum that deals with PostgreSQL migration issues-, and > again no answers. This kind of suppo

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-23 Thread Juan Pereira
On March 20, I asked for help in the Newbie MySQL forum, got no answers. Then the forum administrator moved the post to the PostgreSQL MySQL forum -a forum that deals with PostgreSQL migration issues-, and again no answers. http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?83,253709,253709#msg-253709 Regards J

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-20 Thread Amitabh Kant
You would get better results if you posted in mysql forums. http://forums.mysql.com/ Amitabh -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-20 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello it isn't correct comparation. MySQL people use mainly web forum regards Pavel Stehule 2009/3/20 Juan Pereira : > John Cheng wrote: > >>> This is question for Juan, have you asked the MySQL mailing list? > > I'm afraid MySQL general list isn't as dynamic as PostgreSQL general list. > > htt

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-20 Thread Juan Pereira
John Cheng wrote: >> This is question for Juan, have you asked the MySQL mailing list? I'm afraid MySQL general list isn't as dynamic as PostgreSQL general list. http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/216795 MySQL general list: 4 answers in about 48 hours PostgreSQL general list: 27 answers in about 72 h

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-19 Thread Amitabh Kant
Just to add to this list, I have been using Postgresql to store data for multiple GPS applications handling more than 150-200 vehicles. Some of the tables that I have are running into 20 - 25 million rows at the max, and on average 10 million rows. I am yet to see a problem from the database side,

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Juan Pereira > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The question is: Which DBMS do you think is the best for this kind of >> application? PostgreSQL or MySQL? > > Another advantage pgsql has is that many ddl operations on

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Juan Pereira wrote: > Hello, > > The question is: Which DBMS do you think is the best for this kind of > application? PostgreSQL or MySQL? Another advantage pgsql has is that many ddl operations on tables do NOT require exclusive locks on those tables. Creating i

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-19 Thread Shane Ambler
Thomas Kellerer wrote: Harald Armin Massa, 17.03.2009 15:00: That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really large actually? I recently attended and Oracle training by Tom Kyte and he said (partially joking though) that a database is only large when the size is measured

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Browne
juankarlos.open...@gmail.com (Juan Pereira) writes: > Quite interesting! The main reason why we thought using a table per > truck was because concurrent load: if there are 100 trucks trying to > write in the same table, maybe the performance is worse than having > 100 tables, due to the fact that t

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-18 Thread Gregory Stark
Merlin Moncure writes: > A good rule of thumb for large is table size > working ram. Huge > (really large) is 10x ram. Or better yet, large is data > working ram. Very large is data > directly attached drives... That means that without fairly expensive hardware you start talking about "very lar

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-18 Thread Juan Pereira
John Cheng wrote: >> This is question for Juan, have you asked the MySQL mailing list? Not yet. Admitting my ignorance in databases, I'm trying to understand all the concepts discussed in this thread . Be sure today I will ask the MySQL list. Thanks 2009/3/17 John Cheng > This is question f

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-18 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 12:05 AM 3/18/2009, Erik Jones wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: The question is: Which DBMS do you think is the best for this kind of application? PostgreSQL or MySQL? As you can imagine, PostgreSQL. My main reasons are that in a proper transactional environment (i

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-18 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 10:00 PM 3/17/2009, Harald Armin Massa wrote: Merlin, > I agree though > that a single table approach is best unless 1) the table has to scale > to really, really large sizes or 2) there is a lot of churn on the > data (lots of bulk inserts and deletes). while agreeing, an additional questio

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread John Cheng
This is question for Juan, have you asked the MySQL mailing list? What do they say about this? On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Erik Jones wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > > The question is: Which DBMS do you think is the best for this kind of >>> application? Postg

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:44:48PM +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > So really, really large would mean something like 100 petabytes > > My personal opinion is that a "large" database has more than ~10 million > rows in more than ~10 tables. Surely anything like "large" or "small" is a relative me

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > Merlin, > >> I agree though >> that a single table approach is best unless 1) the table has to scale >> to really, really large sizes or 2) there is a lot of churn on the >> data (lots of bulk inserts and deletes). > > while agreeing, a

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:44 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Harald Armin Massa, 17.03.2009 15:00: > > That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really > > large actually? > > I recently attended and Oracle training by Tom Kyte and he said (partially > joking though) that a da

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Harald Armin Massa, 17.03.2009 15:00: That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really large actually? I recently attended and Oracle training by Tom Kyte and he said (partially joking though) that a database is only large when the size is measured in terrabytes :) So re

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Merlin, > I agree though > that a single table approach is best unless 1) the table has to scale > to really, really large sizes or 2) there is a lot of churn on the > data (lots of bulk inserts and deletes). while agreeing, an additional question: could you please pronounce "really, really large

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Erik Jones
On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: The question is: Which DBMS do you think is the best for this kind of application? PostgreSQL or MySQL? As you can imagine, PostgreSQL. My main reasons are that in a proper transactional environment (ie you're not using scary MyISAM tables) Pg

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Stephen Frost
Juan, * Juan Pereira (juankarlos.open...@gmail.com) wrote: > The main reason why we thought using a table per truck was because > concurrent load: if there are 100 trucks trying to write in the same table, > maybe the performance is worse than having 100 tables, due to the fact that > the table is

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Craig Ringer
Stephen Frost wrote: > As mentioned, you might want to eliminate duplicate entries; no sense > storing information that can be trivially derived. It's pretty easy to do that with a trigger - and you can add a degree of noise correction too, so that "wobble" in GPS position doesn't get recorded -

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Juan Pereira wrote: > Craig Ringer wrote: > > >>> You're almost always better off using a single table with a composite >>> primary key like (truckid, datapointid) or whatever. If you'll be doing >>> lots of queries that focus on individual vehicles and expect perf

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Juan Pereira wrote: > Craig Ringer wrote: > > > >> You're almost always better off using a single table with a composite > >> primary key like (truckid, datapointid) or whatever. If you'll be doing > >> lots of queries that focus on individual vehicles and expect performance > >> issues then you

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Juan Pereira
Craig Ringer wrote: >> You're almost always better off using a single table with a composite >> primary key like (truckid, datapointid) or whatever. If you'll be doing >> lots of queries that focus on individual vehicles and expect performance >> issues then you could partition the table by truck

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Stephen Frost
Juan, * Juan Pereira (juankarlos.open...@gmail.com) wrote: > - The schema for this kind of data consists of several arguments -latitude, > longitude, time, speed. etc-, none of them is a text field. I would think you might want *some* text fields, for vehicle identification, as a seperate table a

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Juan Pereira wrote: > > >> - The database also should create a table for every truck -around 100 >> trucks-. > > Why? > > That's a rather clumsy design that makes it really hard to get aggregate > data across the fleet or do many interesting q

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Craig Ringer
Juan Pereira wrote: > - The database also should create a table for every truck -around 100 > trucks-. Why? That's a rather clumsy design that makes it really hard to get aggregate data across the fleet or do many interesting queries. You're almost always better off using a single table with a

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
Hi Juan, First of all congratulations on you project :) We, at MADEIRA GPS, use Postgresql and PostGIS as the corner stone of our fleet management solution and have tens of *millions* of records in a single vehicles history table without any visible performance problem (we do however clean it

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:25:08PM +0100, Juan Pereira wrote: > I'm currently developing a program for centralizing the vehicle fleet GPS > information -http://openggd.sourceforge.net-, written in C++. > > The database should have these requirements: ... > - The database also should create a ta

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Juan Pereira
Hello, I'm currently developing a program for centralizing the vehicle fleet GPS information -http://openggd.sourceforge.net-, written in C++. The database should have these requirements: - The schema for this kind of data consists of several arguments -latitude, longitude, time, speed. etc-, no

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Welty
[this is all horribly offtopic, but since the listadmins haven't commenced summary execution yet... i have a suggestion to make about offtopic discussions, which appears at the end] On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:12:37 -0400 Joseph Shraibman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Who's wan

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-22 Thread Joseph Shraibman
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Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, All due respect to everyone but political correctness is essentially the living with the feeling that you are a politician. I am not a politician, neither is Command Prompt. We are a business, we have opinions, views and a sense of humor. These traits may or may not be representative of

Re: Rockets (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL)

2003-09-22 Thread Jan Wieck
Richard Welty wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:49:32 -0600 (MDT) "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > What's a Saturn IV? Do you mean the Saturn V? http://www.aviation-central.com/space/usm50.htm actually, may i suggeset http://www.astronautix.

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 17:15, Christopher Browne wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Chittenden) writes: [snip] > A coworker made the snide remark that anyone that doesn't totally "get > it" is likely to really wonder about the notion of roasting a dolphin > over a spit. > > Roasting dolphins over t

Re: Rockets (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL)

2003-09-19 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Welty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.averillpark.net/space/booster.html > I would suggest that if Tom wanted to use the rocket analogy, he might want > to compare PostgreSQL to maybe a contemporary Atlas 5 medium configuration. > the Titan II is quite old now and there's only o

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-19 Thread Martin Marques
El Jue 18 Sep 2003 20:34, scott.marlowe escribió: > > they still claim to have ACID compliance, an issue I've discussed with a > few of the folks from MySQL AB. To them, the C in ACID only implies fk > constraints. The fact that they ignore base type constraints (i.e. insert > 8 billion into an i

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-19 Thread Ron Johnson
reg Williamson > DBA GlobeXplorer LLC > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu 9/18/2003 10:30 PM > To: scott.marlowe > Cc: Steve Crawford; Scott Holmes; PgSQL General ML > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

Rockets (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL)

2003-09-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 00:30, Tom Lane wrote: > "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... Being honest and fair will win > > hearts and minds, and when they need the Saturn 4 instead of the Estes > > rocket, they'll remember who to come to. > > I like this analogy, though maybe you've ov

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2003 04:45 pm, Scott Holmes wrote: > > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 September 2003 04:04 pm, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > >>> I think the below just about says it all: > > >>> > > >>>http://www.commandprompt.com/i

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > >I think the below just about says it all: > > http://www.commandprompt.com/images/mammoth_versus_dolphin_500.jpg Cool ! > > Sincerely, > > Joshua Drake > > > Regards, Oleg ___

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-19 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
rom: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 9/18/2003 10:30 PM To: scott.marlowe Cc: Steve Crawford; Scott Holmes; PgSQL General ML Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... Being honest and fair will

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
"scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... Being honest and fair will win > hearts and minds, and when they need the Saturn 4 instead of the Estes > rocket, they'll remember who to come to. I like this analogy, though maybe you've overstretched. Perhaps: MySQL = Estes. Put in InnoDB, an

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-18 Thread Sean Chittenden
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Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-18 Thread Mike Mascari
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I think the below just about says it all: > > http://www.commandprompt.com/images/mammoth_versus_dolphin_500.jpg > > Sincerely, > > Joshua Drake Too bad the symbol of Oracle Corp. isn't a peanut... Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL

2003-09-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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