Re: Cross-distro binary compatibilty

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@ihug.co.nz>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:12:57PM -0400, Adam Skutt wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
> > 
> > (sticks hand up from back of room) PostgreSQL OSS alternative for
> > Oracle?
> > 
> In some cases, yes.  But not in a whole host of others.
> 
> PostgreSQL is not as scalable or as fast as Oracle on the high-end.
> 
> It's also lacking some features needed for dealing with really massive
> datasets.
> 
> There is no true OSS equivalent to the likes of Oracle and DB2, and it's
> likely there will never be, unless one of them becomes open-source.

After a quick search through the postgresql-doc package I found 
postgresql-doc/TODO.detail/performance.gz
which compares Oracle + PostgreSQL.

Thanks.

-- 
Chris.
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