Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL banter. - Mailing list pgsql-general

Bravo

Good points.

Most *nix systems are finaly working toward POSIX compliance.

Most SQL systems are working toward SQL92 {I think} compliance.

On the other hand just because you are compliant does not mean that your
code is portable. I don't want this point to turn into a thread, it just
isn't important enough.

There are even RDBMS systems that don't use SQL and that does not make
them bad, it just makes them different.

I used to write my databases in C using an algorythm I developed myself
that is simmilar to but before btree existed. My engine kept indexes in
a pointer of pointers type format in memory, that was quick and didn't
require a lot of memory. Those databases ran on an IBM PC-XT with 512 kB
ram and a 10 MB HD and easily handled 64K interlinked records with an
average of 8 probes per query. Oh and by the way that was on dos 3.2{if
my memory serves me correctly} with Borland Turbo C, but I forget wich
memory model I used {It has been 6 years since I did any non *nix
programming}.

Guy Fraser

Otto Hirr wrote:
>
> > ...
> > ... mysql v postgres
> > ...
>
> In a book on marketing warfare (maybe the one
> by Ries & Trout) there was a question about who
> was the competitor:
>
> You own a hotel on a small desert island
...snip...
> who is the real, significant competitor.
>
> It reminds me about unix.  Let see, is it
> Sun or HP that has the better unix.
...snip...
> unix v MS Windows...
> What would have happened if the unix vendors
> laid down their NIH and joined each other?
>
> So who is the real, important competitor?
> Is it so much important to "compete"
> between mysql and postgres, or is it more
> important to compete with the proprietary
> databases.  They all must laugh themselves
> silly at times.
>
> But I tell you that there would be a WHOLE
> lot more concern if the HUGE amount of brains
> and talent on both these projects all laid
> down their editors, compilers, os's, and their
> deeply entrenched NIH attitude and join
> forces with each other.  What would that be
> like?  Is it possible?  So you feel like
> competing, then compete against your own
> self to ask what you could learn from each
> other, then change direction and compete
> against your COMMON competitor - the
> proprietary databases.
>
> Just some rambling thoughts - and certainly
> not to try and tit-for-tat war.
>
> Regards,
>
> .. Otto
>
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