Oracle shuts down PostgreSQL test servers
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To some extent, you have to make a choice to focus your marketing on managers or to focus your marketing on Engineers... but even so, it sometimes seems that oracle goes out of it's way to piss off the Engineers.
I think the open-source community really undervalues Postgres. MySQL does what it does well enough but the Postgres team has done a phenomenal job building a robust, fully-featured open RDBMS. Hopefully the replication features of the 9.x release will get it into more server rooms.
They are so scared that they prevent anyone with an Oracle license from publishing a benchmark of it. Which can only mean that they suck at everything except playing golf.
Then what's this? http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp
I think you're confused. All of the major DB vendors have clauses saying that you can't publish benchmarks without their written consent. Not surprisingly that supports a hearty confirmation bias. What's the confusion?
I believe every single major database vendor does this. It's called a DeWitt clause. The arguable justification is that it avoids misleading or incompetent benchmarks from slandering their product, but in reality it's so the only benchmarks published are the ones that favour them.
I recently was looking to add Microsoft's new AppFabric (sort of like Redis) to an install, but strangely was finding zero performance metrics on it. I finally plowed ahead to discover that one of the first EULA demands is that you don't publish any benchmarks. I cancelled the install and moved on.
Products that can't bear comparison instantly enter the land of the dubious.
"It's very dangerous to let anyone fly under you. If you have the cheapest, easiest product, you'll own the low end. And if you don't, you're in the crosshairs of whoever does."
"In technology, the low end always eats the high end. It's easier to make an inexpensive product more powerful than to make a powerful product cheaper. So the products that start as cheap, simple options tend to gradually grow more powerful till, like water rising in a room, they squash the "high-end" products against the ceiling."
The have them anyway, and they build PostgreSQL anyway when it's uploaded to debian (although obviously that's not every commit).
But with ccache a rebuild is not very expensive.
Sun Microsystems - and for a short time its new owner Oracle - had provided three member servers to ensure PostgreSQL was stable on the Solaris operating system.
Several Oracls DBAs I know used to say "if you want to run Oracle you might as well run it on Solaris"