Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64
Hi,
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
So that is 'Why no mysql', how about 'why no postgresql' part of the
original question?
Well, I am afraid I'm not quite postgresql-literate, and I live by the
(perhaps false) assumption that PostgreSQL and MySQL are more or less
the same : open source database projects, except PostgreSQL are supposed
to be "faster" in reading and "slower" in writing than MySQL, and that
they roughly have the same capabilities..
Other than live replication and failover and such, I can't think of
anything that I know oracle can do that postgresql can't. Of course I
haven't really used oracle so I imagine there is something (besides cost
you a lot of cash).
Well, of course it doesn't mean anything to use Oracle in a small
environment, as I said it only becomes good when you have a single DB
that is being used by several clients and you need data consistency
without having to modify all the clients when there's a structural
change (for instance, say you add a table that needs updated when you do
whatever action on the other tables -- Oracle allows you to code an
event associated to that action - ie a procedure...). That's merely a
scenario, of course. If you just need the standard functionalities of DB
and don't mind having your client software ensuring data consistency,
mysql and i guess postgresql perform fine and will even be faster than
Oracle for very simple tasks. Merely a question of raw processing power.
--
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