On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:26:03AM +0100, Magnus Manske wrote:
As long as we're talking about different open
source databases, there's
also SAP DB (
http://www.sapdb.org/). This is a once-commercial database
that is now under open source, similar to Netscape/Mozilla. As this once
was commercial, running databases for the largest companies, it seems to
outclass both MySQL and PostgreSQL in speed, reliability, and supported
SQL language. The strange thing is that it is hardly known in the open
source scene. I didn't try it myself yet, either.
There's a reason for that. It's a bitch to get up and running, and
tuned to run anywhere near at a reasonable performance. People that use
the SAP DB invariably end up paying SAP to set it up for them.
Oh, and benchmarks show it's not superior to, only comparable to,
PostgreSQL and Oracle.
Jonathan
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