[Linux-users] Data Base Opinion

[Michael Hipp]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007, Ben Duncan wrote:
>> Yeah, I looked at the CODE for part of my MVISAM database engine, and
>> literally got sick ... It was a nightmare of spaghetti code.
>>
>> It was EASIER following Postgres and MySql code than Sleepycat stuff.
>>
>> Anyway, been Playing with tinyERP here lately and it uses PostgreSQL
>> and was surprised that it was not a HOG like I Thought it was (Postgres).
> 
> I think that postgresql may have residual hoggish reputation from the
> original university implementation from which postgresql evolved.  It has
> come to be considered by many people the best of the open source SQL
> databases.

I hadn't heard of it having a hoggist rep, but I've been quite astonished at 
how fast it is even on very modest hardware. Some of my test systems are 
decade-old machines that are good for finding the slow spots in code. They run 
pg just fine.

Michael