Comments on: Report from OSCON 2008

By: peter

peter — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:23:27 +0000

Baron,

You’re right. MySQL marketing materials are often full of crap too.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:21:59 +0000

Lenz,

You’re right. This will be shame for EnterpriseDB for years to come. Mark has a good post on it
http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2008/07/postgresql-vs-mysql-according-to.html

Interesting enough PostgreSQL guys contacted me and few other MySQL community members to review their MySQL vs PostgreSQL comparison papers – this is much better approach.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:17:09 +0000

Roland,

Yeah monetDB is another one though it seems like it is more academic. In reality it would be very interesting to see Column Orientieered storage engine for MySQL too… the problem is however such databases often need very different optimizer to perform well and MySQL is not really flexible in this aspect.

By: Ronald Bradford

Ronald Bradford — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:25:18 +0000

“independent consultants to speed.” –> “to speak” I hope.

By: Baron Schwartz

Baron Schwartz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:50:02 +0000

LenZ,

No issues with calling that whitepaper biased etc etc. But are you sure MySQL doesn’t have any similar whitepapers? I think they do. And the webinars are pretty silly sometimes too.

By: LenZ

LenZ — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:53:06 +0000

EDB may have not mentioned or compared itself against MySQL at OSCON, but biased and partially incorrect product comparisons like this one clearly indicate who they are targetting:

http://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/whitepapers/PGvsMySQL_LowRes.pdf

By: Roland Bouman

Roland Bouman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:12:19 +0000

Yeah LucidDB is a pretty interesting project. If you are looking for a column oriented open source dbms, take a look at MonetDB too – they have some very promising benchmarks.