[Asterisk-Users] OT: Best DB

[Paul]

Let's get back to the highly valid point that Robert made. He is 
absolutely right. Good parents teach their children to do the right 
thing regardless of what the majority of children are doing these days.

Consider 2 approaches to dealing with a compromised PC. I think the 
majority of the so-called "experts" will run a few security-related 
programs and really beleive that it is safe to use the computer again. 
My approach is always to write zeroes to the MBR and directory areas and 
then do a new OS install. I always do that and any patches/updates from 
behind a hardware firewall. That puts me in a small minority but that 
minority is right and the majority is wrong.

If postgreSQL is a dog, it will be winning first place at all the dog 
shows. MySQL(or should I say YourSQL?) is a rodent.

Giudice, Salvatore wrote:

> Maybe, it has absolutely nothing to do with performance or stability. 
> Maybe, it has something with ‘ease of implementation’, ‘ease of use’, 
> ‘availability of commercial support’, and which database vendors 
> ultimately decide to support in their products. Obviously, Microsoft 
> has a lot of vendors pushing SQL server integration with their 
> products. Oracle has pretty good penetration with vendors also. Now if 
> you were a vendor and you going to integrate with open source database 
> – Would you choose MySQL, which is available under GPL with the 
> possibility commercial licensing AND has a real enterprise class 
> support structure behind it, or are you going to run with PostgreSQL 
> (bow wow) distributed under a BSD license with some mom and pop 
> support shops and some mailing lists? Well, I would say that vendors 
> and enterprise customers are speaking loud and clear when they are 
> choosing MySQL 4 to 1 over PostgreSQL.
>
> Hey, it’s your choice. Do you want to eat American Grade A American 
> beef or that strange meat flavored tofu? As long as it meets your 
> needs, choose whatever you have the ability to handle.
>
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> *From:* Robert Goodyear [mailto:me at jrob.net]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:49 PM
> *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Best DB
>
> On Mar 15, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Giudice, Salvatore wrote:
>
> Sticks and stone still break my bones, but PostgreSQL is still a dog.
>
> *Market share:*
>
> According to CD Times magazine dated July 1, 2004
>
> Top Deployed Databases poll shows following databases in use:
>
> SQL Server with 78%, Oracle - 55%, MySQL - 33% and PostgreSQL - 8%.
>
> Devil's advocate here: what does deployment quantity have to do with 
> stability, performance or otherwise?
>
> I could start a pretty big flame war if I tried to compare Windows 95 
> with MacOS X by deployment stats instead of stability.
>
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