Re: SQL Database performance
Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com> writes:
> Postgresql runs like greased lightning. In some tests involving
> 0.5 million records of a few K in size, it blew away MS SQL Server.
> I think it was version 6. Postgresql runs well, although it does have
> some limitations. ODBC was the main weakness I noticed. We're currently
> deploying Oracle on a Debian server...
>
> Oracle is bloatware even by Microsoft standards. I can't comment on
> speed yet.
Oracle's CEO, Larry Ellison, claims that if anyone can show that SQL
Server is less than 100 times slower than Oracle, he'll give them a
million dollars. See
<URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/18/0837247.shtml>.
I'm also planning on sticking the first page of the PDF at
<URL:http://www2.software.ibm.com/news/news.nsf/n/cjig425nf2> up at
the office somewhere.
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