Comment putting the record straight (Score 1) 128
Contributing Ingres to the open source community could not have happened without Sam Greenblatt's support, assistance, guidance and commitment to the success of the project.
We within CA greatly admire and respect the MySQL and PostgreSQL communities and believe that there's room for all three of us, and more, in the open source database arena which is probably why Sam didn't get into a feature function comparison here on Slashdot.
Ingres r3 provides support for:
Transactions;
Views;
Database procedures;
Rules;
Database events;
User defined functions and data types;
Partitioned tables;
Paralleled query support;
Federated databases;
row, page, table and database locking;
Replication;
2K, 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K database pages;
C2 Security;
Auditing;
Royalty free redistribution under the CATOSL
For those of you who weren't aware of it, the name Postgres is a contraction of Post-Ingres. Postgres was a project founded at UC Berkeley by Michael Stonebreaker, one of the founders of the Ingres project at UC Berkeley. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database engine targeted at small to medium deployments. The PostgreSQL architecture is very similar to an older Ingres architecture that was found not to scale well in large enterprises and which was reengineered by the Ingres team about fifteen years ago. Ingres is a robust, reliable and scalable relational database, providing a rich feature set similar to that of PostgreSQL that is suited to small, medium and large scale deployments.
MySQL is well suited to read only applications and to serving up HTML content, but it lacks the feature set required to support transactional applicaitons in large enterprise deployments.
Our product management team will post a feature function comparison matrix on our open source site for those who are really interested in this type of tick in the box comparison.
Emma K McGrattan
Ingres Project Owner
We within CA greatly admire and respect the MySQL and PostgreSQL communities and believe that there's room for all three of us, and more, in the open source database arena which is probably why Sam didn't get into a feature function comparison here on Slashdot.
Ingres r3 provides support for:
Transactions;
Views;
Database procedures;
Rules;
Database events;
User defined functions and data types;
Partitioned tables;
Paralleled query support;
Federated databases;
row, page, table and database locking;
Replication;
2K, 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K and 64K database pages;
C2 Security;
Auditing;
Royalty free redistribution under the CATOSL
For those of you who weren't aware of it, the name Postgres is a contraction of Post-Ingres. Postgres was a project founded at UC Berkeley by Michael Stonebreaker, one of the founders of the Ingres project at UC Berkeley. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database engine targeted at small to medium deployments. The PostgreSQL architecture is very similar to an older Ingres architecture that was found not to scale well in large enterprises and which was reengineered by the Ingres team about fifteen years ago. Ingres is a robust, reliable and scalable relational database, providing a rich feature set similar to that of PostgreSQL that is suited to small, medium and large scale deployments.
MySQL is well suited to read only applications and to serving up HTML content, but it lacks the feature set required to support transactional applicaitons in large enterprise deployments.
Our product management team will post a feature function comparison matrix on our open source site for those who are really interested in this type of tick in the box comparison.
Emma K McGrattan
Ingres Project Owner
