Re: sql database

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Timothy Phan wrote:
  >Hi,
  >
  >  Has anyone done any benchmark/comparison between these databases?
  >    mSQL, MySQL, PostGres95
  >  in term of performance, application interfaces such as perl, tcl,
  >  and drivers such as odbc, jdbc, etc.

There have been some comparisons on the PostgreSQL mailing lists.  These
are archived somewhere at www.postgresql.org.

With regard to PostgreSQL at least, you should try to ensure that you are
comparing like with like. PostgreSQL has many capabilities that other free
databases don't.  However, it has to sacrifice some speed to get them.

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