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Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb

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On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:03:49 +0200, Harry Tuttle wrote:

> Mladen is out on a holy war to bash Postgres wherever he can because he 
takes
> that fact that Postgres works differently than Oracle as a personal 
offense.

I'm not on waging a war, I am just warning people of deception. Postgres 
is a bait & switch thing. I have wasted approximately a year of my life 
trying to learn it. I'm just pointing out that Postgres is an inadequate DB
for the commercial use. Simply put, without the missing features, Postgres 
is inadequate for any serious company to entrust data to it.
There is nothing wrong with not being similar to Oracle. DB2 and SQL 
Server are databases which are not similar to Oracle, yet they both have
decent partitioning, built-in parallelism and hints. Postgres is simply not
on the same level as those guys. For that matter, neither is MySQL in any 
of its flavours, but MySQL is good enough, precisely because of hints.
In addition to that, MySQL developers are open minded. If there are 
requirements for certain feature, MySQL guys will implement it, while 
PostgreSQL developers is not. There are funny coincidences that are worth 
noting, too. For instance, the guy who is basically the head of design 
committee works for EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB is selling a version of 
Postgres with hints. So, in the world of Postgres one has to pay for 
hints. All other databases give them away. That's enough for me. I steer 
clear of Postgres. 
And don't compare Postgres to Oracle. There is no comparison. Stonebraker 
has lost to Ellison before. The fact that PostgreSQL share is not growing 
while Oracle share is growing, despite the atrocious license costs, ought 
to tell you something. If a free database cannot grow when pitched against 
an expensive commercial database, then there is a problem with the freebie.



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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like....victory.
(Apocalypse Now)

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why is postgresql better than mariadb? johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-08-15 20:20 -0700
  Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2013-08-17 12:54 +0000
  Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Harry Tuttle <SOZRBLNTLEEE@spammotel.com> - 2013-08-18 21:40 +0200
    Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mario Splivalo <majk@fly.srk.fer.hr> - 2013-09-12 19:57 +0000
      Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Harry Tuttle <SOZRBLNTLEEE@spammotel.com> - 2013-09-12 22:16 +0200
      Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 08:21 +0000
        Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> - 2013-10-06 12:10 +0200
          Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 20:44 +0000
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> - 2013-10-06 23:17 +0200
          Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Harry Tuttle <SOZRBLNTLEEE@spammotel.com> - 2013-10-07 18:03 +0200
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> - 2013-10-07 18:30 +0200
              Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Milo Minderbinder <milo@mmenterprises.invalid> - 2013-10-09 01:51 +0000
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb Milo Minderbinder <milo@mmenterprises.invalid> - 2013-10-09 01:46 +0000
              Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-10-09 08:41 +0200
                Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 03:24 +0000
        Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2013-10-11 12:17 +0000
          Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Paul Sephton <prsephton@gmail.com> - 2013-10-14 03:47 -0700
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Harry Tuttle <SOZRBLNTLEEE@spammotel.com> - 2013-10-14 18:52 +0200
              Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 03:58 +0000
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 03:55 +0000
          Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 03:50 +0000
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 04:07 +0000
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> - 2013-10-25 10:09 +0200
            Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 10:52 -0800
    Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 10:58 -0800
  Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 08:24 +0000
    Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 02:32 -0700
  Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Marcello Dias <marcellaodobrasil@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 07:39 -0800
    Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 02:33 -0700
  Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Marcello Dias <marcellaodobrasil@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 09:17 -0800
    Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-02 21:18 +0100
  Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Marcello Dias <marcellaodobrasil@gmail.com> - 2013-11-30 05:59 -0800
    Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? eric@invalid.com (EricF) - 2013-12-04 04:11 +0000
    Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 02:37 -0700
  Re: why is postgresql better than mariadb? Marcello Dias <marcellaodobrasil@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 02:53 -0800
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