Re: [MLUG] Oracle v. MySQL

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I too would suggest taking a look at PostGre it is a much better database. Some people say it suffers from a speed problem that is not there in MySQL and Oracle, I personally have not had a PostGre database large enough to notice ay significant difference between the three.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:34 AM, ryan woodsmall <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

Mike,

You should definitely check out PostgreSQL - it's more enterprise
friendly than MySQL, but just as free. A company called EnterpriseDB
makes an Oracle-compliant version of Postgres to boot.

MySQL is easier to learn and admin, but for any production work, I'd
still pick Postgres.

  -ryan

On Sep 26, 2008, at 18:44, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
wrote:

> We have a lot of data -- apparently about 9,000 tables in an RDBMS.
> It's
> in Oracle now.  As a fan of open source solutions, I would prefer to
> use
> MySQL or other open source RDBMS, but at what cost?  Before I even
> consider moving data to MySQL from Oracle, I want to know what
> Oracle can
> do that MySQL (or other FOSS product) cannot do.  Have any of you
> studied
> this or do you know of any reasonably serious comparative research or
> reviews?  Thanks.
>
> Mike
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