From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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To: | mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc |
Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: interesting article: Leverage your PostgreSQL V8.1 skills to learn DB2, Version |
Date: | 2006-08-07 17:05:47 |
Message-ID: | 20060807170546.GA40481@pervasive.com |
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:42:23AM -0400, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:01:30AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > I found maybe interesting article
> > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0603wasserman2/
>
> That for the article. I had been meaning to look at DB2, and it gave me a
> quick summary.
>
> What I get from the article, though, is that DB2 is more modularized than
> PostgreSQL, however, it has concurrency issues. Is this true? Anybody allowed
> to comment on the peformance of small-sized (~1 million rows) databases?
>
> I'm not seeing a compelling reason to switch.
Unless it's changed recently, it uses shared read locks, so yes, there's
definately concurrency issues to think about.
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