Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished  (Lewis Cunningham <lewisc@rocketmail.com>)
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Lewis Cunningham wrote:
> If anyone is interested, I could answer the questions for Oracle and
> you could add those, too.  Be interesting to see a chart like that
> (that stays updated after releases) for a large assortment of
> databases.
>
> If we add a bunch of different databases, it might be easier to
> manipulate if it was stored in a database.  MS-Access maybe?  ;-)

Let's get this up on the wiki.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> LewisC
>
> --- Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com> wrote:
>
>> Check it out here:
>>
>> http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb
>>
>>
>> When comparing in the grid the only major advantage FB has is
>> probably
>> BLOB support.
>> PG only suppports 1 gb while FB supports 32gb.  Bytea is pretty
>> slow as
>> well when compared to the FB BLOB support.
>>
>> The other area is Character sets and collation.  They support it at
>> a
>> field level as well as the database.
>>
>> Other than that I would say PG kicks butt.
>>
>> If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as
>> the
>> third column.
>>
>>
>> Later,
>>
>> Tony
>>
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