Thread: 10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

From
damien clochard
Date:
hi advocacy people !

Last month, the french speaking community add a booth at "Solution Linux"
annual meeting. For this event, we prepared an A0 poster to tell people why
we love PostgreSQL.

This poster is quite basic : 10 key points have been chosen arbitrary among
all the PostgreSQL goodness.

This poster had a bit of success during the meeting. So we decided to
translate it in English. Unfortunately my knowledge in other languages is to
low to translate it for other local communities :-/

By the way the poster was made with Inkscape in the SVG format, so it may be
very easy to transform it into a smaller poster or into a flyer. This work is
under BSD licence.

check it out :

PNG : http://wiki.postgresqlfr.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/reasons.png?cache=cache
SVG : http://svn.postgresqlfr.org/repos/materials/advocacy/trunk/reasons.svg

You might find that these 10 key points are oversimplistic . Here's more info
about our choices :

Basically we wanted  something that would be quick to read and easy to
remember.

Our experience in doing PG booths is that there are several types of people
passing by the booth : you have people that come to you with a very precise
question, in the other hand you have people that don't even know what a DBMS
is and don't even take a look at you. In between is the vast majority of the
people : just curious people coming to the meeting, These persons are usually
interested by PostgreSQL but they don't dare asking directly a question or
taking a leaflet. Our idea was to provide information to theses
curious-but-shy persons. When they pass by the booth they can read the 10 key
points and get a basic view on PostgreSQL state-of-the-art.

Besides the poster is also very helpful when you try to convice someone, or
when you respond to the whats-the-difference-with-mysql question :-)

All that made us think that we should translate and share this poster. Don't
hesitate to modify and distribute it ! Comments are also welcome !

Regards,

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Re: 10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

From
Robert Bernier
Date:
salu

On Saturday 16 February 2008 18:53, damien clochard wrote:
> hi advocacy people !
>
> Last month, the french speaking community add a booth at "Solution Linux"
> annual meeting. For this event, we prepared an A0 poster to tell people why
> we love PostgreSQL....

Est-ce que je peux l'avoir en francais (c'est pour php quebec, http://conf.phpquebec.com/) ?

merci

robert

Re: 10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

From
damien clochard
Date:
Le Sunday 17 February 2008 01:12:00 Robert Bernier, vous avez écrit :
> salu
>
> On Saturday 16 February 2008 18:53, damien clochard wrote:
> > hi advocacy people !
> >
> > Last month, the french speaking community add a booth at "Solution Linux"
> > annual meeting. For this event, we prepared an A0 poster to tell people
> > why we love PostgreSQL....
>
> Est-ce que je peux l'avoir en francais (c'est pour php quebec,
> http://conf.phpquebec.com/) ?
>

La version française est là / french version is here :

http://svn.postgresqlfr.org/repos/materials/advocacy/trunk/raisons.svg


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Re: 10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

From
Raymond O'Donnell
Date:
On 16/02/2008 23:53, damien clochard wrote:

> All that made us think that we should translate and share this poster. Don't
> hesitate to modify and distribute it ! Comments are also welcome !

Good one! Very much to the point.

I spotted a couple of small typos:

* Point no. 5: there's a stray leading "D" on "Numerous".

* Point no. 6: an extra full-stop at the end.

* Point no. 10: "independant" should read "independent".

Ray.

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Re: 10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

From
damien clochard
Date:
On Sunday 17 February 2008 10:54:32 Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 16/02/2008 23:53, damien clochard wrote:
> > All that made us think that we should translate and share this poster.
> > Don't hesitate to modify and distribute it ! Comments are also welcome !
>
> Good one! Very much to the point.
>
> I spotted a couple of small typos:
>

Fixed.

Update :
http://svn.postgresqlfr.org/repos/materials/advocacy/trunk/reasons.svg

Thank you !


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Re: 10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

From
David Blewett
Date:
damien clochard wrote:
> Fixed.
>
> Update :
> http://svn.postgresqlfr.org/repos/materials/advocacy/trunk/reasons.svg
>
> Thank you !


I spotted a few other errors:


Item #5: I believe the acronym is usually RDBMS instead of DBMS
Item #7: "simpliest" should be "simplest"

David Blewett


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Re: 10 reasons to entrust your data to PostgreSQL

From
"Harald Armin Massa"
Date:
Damien,

I think that reason sheet is an excellent and very helpfull thing!
Just perfect to look, scan and understand.

I would like to suggest an improvement to reason 5:

original:
"""Performance. Numerous studies show that PostgreSQL is able to
compete with the best RDBMS on the marketplace."""

what I do not like: within this argument I get the impression of tow
sets: "the set of the best RDBM on the market" and the other single
element set "PostgreSQL" ... but I am quite sure that Postgres is one
of the best RDBM available. So a distinction of "postgres on the one
side" and "the best RDBMs on the other side" is not possible, as
postgres is on both sides :)

suggestions:
"""Performance. Numerous studies show that PostgreSQL competes
excellent within the best RDBMs on the marketplace"""

or:
"""Performance. Numerous studies show that PostgreSQL is within the
best RDBMs on the marketplace"""

(As I am native German, and I am sure there are numerous people better
in translating German to English:

"""Leistung. Zahlreiceh Studien zeigen, daß PostgreSQL in der Gruppe
der Besten am Leistungswettbewerb der RDBMs teilnimmt."


two more improvements:

a) Once PostgreSQL had the slogan "elephants never forget", do you
think that could be integrated somewhere? (explaining the PostgreSQL
logo and being another reason to entrust your data to PostgreSQL)

b) is this list of reasons allready on one good googlespidered blog
site? those "10 xxx to zzz yyyy""" are very popular, and this list is
really worthy to be popular.

Harald



On Feb 17, 2008 1:35 PM, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 February 2008 10:54:32 Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> > On 16/02/2008 23:53, damien clochard wrote:
> > > All that made us think that we should translate and share this poster.
> > > Don't hesitate to modify and distribute it ! Comments are also welcome !
> >
> > Good one! Very much to the point.
> >
> > I spotted a couple of small typos:
> >
>
> Fixed.
>
> Update :
> http://svn.postgresqlfr.org/repos/materials/advocacy/trunk/reasons.svg
>
> Thank you !
>
>
> --
> damien clochard
> http://dalibo.org | http://dalibo.com
>
>
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