Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mladen Gogala Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql Subject: Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <485d489a-e7a5-4885-9c7d-2d983efef307@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e4f8def8fb90dfd954091bdd9211c78d"; logging-data="13048"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19D0sGg9GKKBBuQWI8e6W2y" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J14Q3OW5NXVkOeIvATz68cVujWE= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.postgresql:506 On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 03:50:17 +0000, Mladen Gogala wrote: > Of course they don't abandon Postgresql in droves. PostgreSQL doesn't > have droves of users in the first place. To illustrate that, I there were PostgreSQL days in 2011 in NYC and MongoDB days in NYC in 2011. Postgres event was dwarfed by the MongoDB event. That showed me everything I needed to know. Part of the reason why PostgreSQL remains obscure database used by scientific institutions which have very little money and practically nobody else is the fact that it is simply inadequate database. Part of the reason why Postgres is and remains inadequate is the fact that its designers are arrogant enough to try telling their users what they need and what they don't need. The process works the other way around: users ask, designers implement. -- Mladen Gogala The Oracle Whisperer http://mgogala.byethost5.com