Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

If anyone is interested, I could answer the questions for Oracle and
you could add those, too. Be interesting to see a chart like that
(that stays updated after releases) for a large assortment of
databases.

If we add a bunch of different databases, it might be easier to
manipulate if it was stored in a database. MS-Access maybe? ;-)

LewisC

--- Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> wrote:

> Check it out here:
>
> http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb
>
>
> When comparing in the grid the only major advantage FB has is
> probably
> BLOB support.
> PG only suppports 1 gb while FB supports 32gb. Bytea is pretty
> slow as
> well when compared to the FB BLOB support.
>
> The other area is Character sets and collation. They support it at
> a
> field level as well as the database.
>
> Other than that I would say PG kicks butt.
>
> If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as
> the
> third column.
>
>
> Later,
>
> Tony
>
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