[ale] RedHat Dabase 2.0

[John Wells]

How does Postgres compare with MySql?  I believe it support stored
procedures, but other than that I'm unaware of what features it may have
the make a good choice.

Thanks,

John

Benjamin Scherrey said:
> Haven't used the RedHat build personally but am intimate with Postgres
> 7.x. Especially since 7.2,  performance and capabilities is on par with,
> and often superior to Oracle. Its been several years  since I've done
> anything with Progress but I recall it being very strong and flexible. I
> would feel  comfortable with (and have) replacing any commercial RDBMS
> with Postgres which I find very  powerful and scalable. Your primary
> concerns are gonna be lack of integrated tools (which Oracle  and
> Progress have pretty strong) and how many proprietary features of the
> product you are  currently using. You really need to go through your
> existing system and document its features and  implementation details
> fairly well before embarking on a conversion. I'm presently doing a
> conversion from an overblown MSoft Access system to Postgres for a major
> hospital here in Atlanta.   I could have recommended any RDBMS
> regardless of the price and my client would have gone  with it. I chose
> Postgres because it is going to allow them to continue their growth,
> vastly improve  their performance and reliability, and wasn't going to
> require me to install gobs of patches with  varying levels of support
> that every Oracle installation I've dealt with requires. Had price been
> a  concern I would have had even more reason to go with Postgres but,
> frankly, if an application  justifies a high-end database product,
> usually the consulting/development costs make the licensing  costs less
> of an issue.
>
> 	good luck,
>
> 		Ben Scherrey
>
> PS: And if your company needs some help in your evaluation feel free to
> contact me... nudge  nudge! ;-)
>
> 10/30/2002 2:37:45 PM, Terry Lee Tucker <terry at esc1.com> wrote:
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>>We have a transportation company with about 100 users. At present, we
>> are stuck with a relational database from Progress Software and want to
>>  get away from the EULA and the high  maintenance fees. Is anyone
>> familiar with RedHat Database 2.0 built off of PostgreSQL 7.2.2? I am
>> downloading it now and just wondered if anyone has any experience, good
>>  or bad, with it. Thanks for your input :^)
>>
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