Where is Postgesql ? - MYSQL SURPRISES WITH MAXDB / MySQL appliance forLinux arrives

[Martin_Hurst]

It would appear that MySQL is making great strides into the commercial and
even the enterprise arena.

I am not seeing the same news coverage being said about Postgresql.
I believe Postgresql has been a much better rdbms than MySQL for a long
time, so then why has not Postgresql grabbed the commercial and enterprise
arena before MySQL did?

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MySQL isn't just an inexpensive data store any more. It's gone
mission-critical, says CEO Marten Mickos, who adds that his company
is capable of servicing and supporting an enterprise's database needs
and still fit neatly alongside Oracle and other big database players.

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MySQL appliance for Linux arrives:

"The product is highly reliable, very fast, and straightforward to use,"
Robert Frances Group's Robinson said. "The company is engaging in a number
of partnerships (Pogo and SAP) both to enhance its own product and to
increase its level of commercial support. Commercial support is critical to
increasing the number of enterprise deployments of MySQL, and the company
and its partners have done an admirable job of addressing this issue."

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[Tom Lane]

Ma**********@do m.com writes:

I am not seeing the same news coverage being said about Postgresql.

MySQL AB recently got ~ $20M in venture funding, and they are investing
large chunks of it in marketing. We just have to weather the ad campaign.
At the rate they're going they'll be through that money soon ;-)

regards, tom lane

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[Jan Wieck]

Tom Lane wrote:

Ma**********@do m.com writes:

I am not seeing the same news coverage being said about Postgresql.

MySQL AB recently got ~ $20M in venture funding, and they are investing
large chunks of it in marketing. We just have to weather the ad campaign.
At the rate they're going they'll be through that money soon ;-)

I was wondering what they are giving people who ask these days for
MaxDB? Does that product exist or is even out there as a BETA yet? All I
have seen so far where some vague statements that it will be based on
some old SAPDB code and maybe pieces of old MySQL technology, but mostly
be new development.

I think a couple press people got fairly confused out there and are
reporting attributes that are planned for some future product as being
available in the current MySQL 4.x product.

Not sure that was intended, but nice marketing job anyway.
Jan

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[Alvaro Herrera Munoz]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:00:18PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:

I was wondering what they are giving people who ask these days for
MaxDB? Does that product exist or is even out there as a BETA yet? All I
have seen so far where some vague statements that it will be based on
some old SAPDB code and maybe pieces of old MySQL technology, but mostly
be new development.

IIRC the press release mentioned that MaxDB will have MySQL compatibility
"soon", so it doesn't have it now. Maybe it's just the SAP DB code ...

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[Jan Wieck]

Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote:

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:00:18PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:

I was wondering what they are giving people who ask these days for
MaxDB? Does that product exist or is even out there as a BETA yet? All I
have seen so far where some vague statements that it will be based on
some old SAPDB code and maybe pieces of old MySQL technology, but mostly
be new development.

IIRC the press release mentioned that MaxDB will have MySQL compatibility
"soon", so it doesn't have it now. Maybe it's just the SAP DB code ...

That could be. Then the question becomes, what will happen to the
existing MySQL 4.0 product when they have that compatibility and how
will the MaxDB licensing satisfy existing MySQL users? And of course,
how will that thing perform in the MySQL compatibility mode?
Jan

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[Jonathan Bartlett]

As far as I'm aware, MAXDB is completely different from MySQL, although
it's sold by the same company. It's basically SAP's DB, which is really
just a fork off of Adabas D, which has been a mainframe database for a
long time.

So, it really has nothing to do with MySQL, just the MySQL company.

I looked into SAPDB once a long time ago. It has several good features,
including:

* Oracle 7 compatibility mode
* Several data warehousing enhancements
* My favorite - TABLESPACES!!

It was near impossible to install, but seemed to work a lot like Oracle.
Just my impression.

Again, this has nothing to do with the MySQL product. Also, MySQL has a
lot pbigger budget for PR than PG.

Jon

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 Ma**********@do m.com wrote:

It would appear that MySQL is making great strides into the commercial and
even the enterprise arena.

I am not seeing the same news coverage being said about Postgresql.
I believe Postgresql has been a much better rdbms than MySQL for a long
time, so then why has not Postgresql grabbed the commercial and enterprise
arena before MySQL did?

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MySQL isn't just an inexpensive data store any more. It's gone
mission-critical, says CEO Marten Mickos, who adds that his company
is capable of servicing and supporting an enterprise's database needs
and still fit neatly alongside Oracle and other big database players.

For the full details, click:
http://www.searchenterpriselinux.com...ml?track=NL-76

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

MySQL appliance for Linux arrives:

"The product is highly reliable, very fast, and straightforward to use,"
Robert Frances Group's Robinson said. "The company is engaging in a number
of partnerships (Pogo and SAP) both to enhance its own product and to
increase its level of commercial support. Commercial support is critical to
increasing the number of enterprise deployments of MySQL, and the company
and its partners have done an admirable job of addressing this issue."

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[Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29]

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* My favorite - TABLESPACES!!

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This is one feature I dearly wished PostgreSQL had because it would
allow for some additional performance tuning options.

One thing I really liked about Oracle's Table Spaces was that I could
specify a full path to it and the entire thing was in one file which could
easily be copied to a different OS and the same version of Oracle would
just use it without any problems.

The other thing I really liked about Table Spaces is that Oracle had a
tool called "OCOPY" which would make a duplicate of it (even while live)
frozen at that moment without interfering with live transactions, thus
backups could be made at any time from the copies of the files. I usually
created a subdirectory called "backups" and used OCopy to put them there.

If a future version of PostgreSQL could use Table Spaces instead of a
group of individual files in the "base" directory (as it does now), then I
believe it would add a whole new dimension to performance tuning (in
addition to other things such as table, index, etc., size management).

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[Christopher Browne]

jo*****@eskimo. com (Jonathan Bartlett) writes:

As far as I'm aware, MAXDB is completely different from MySQL,
although it's sold by the same company. It's basically SAP's DB,
which is really just a fork off of Adabas D, which has been a
mainframe database for a long time.

So, it really has nothing to do with MySQL, just the MySQL company.

MySQL AB got about $19M of venture capital to take over development of
"SAPDB," which represents rather a lot of 'nothing.'

What will happen in the integration of the product lines is a Really
Big Question.

- If it succeeds, it shows how impoverished the "old" product was;

- If it fails, it will be a company-killing disaster for them that
will reflect badly across the whole 'open source' community.

The latter would injure the credibility of PostgreSQL in the wider
community, despite the fact you or I might imagine this to be
irrelevant.
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[Randolf Richardson]

[sNip]

What will happen in the integration of the product lines is a Really
Big Question.

- If it succeeds, it shows how impoverished the "old" product was;

- If it fails, it will be a company-killing disaster for them that
will reflect badly across the whole 'open source' community.
The open source community will survive. If they don't play their
cards right, then MySQL could lose popularity fast and you'll know this is
the case because tools and scripts for converting away from it to other
database engines will become both popular and visible in a very short
period of time.

Aside from that, I don't see how the individual actions of one
organization that has been charging for open source software can possibly
reflect on all those projects which are totally free, such as PostgreSQL,
Druid, Apache, and the countless others -- when people think of open source
they don't think of MySQL first, they think of the real stars such as the
Apache Group and SourceForge.Net as great examples (although I still
haven't been able to locate the source code for SourceForge.Net ).
The latter would injure the credibility of PostgreSQL in the wider
community, despite the fact you or I might imagine this to be
irrelevant.

What do you base your conclusion on?

From my perspective MySQL and PostgreSQL are completely different
projects (for starters they even use different licensing schemes -- BSD v.
GPL) that are in competition. Since PostgreSQL stands on its own without
any dependencies on MySQL, I don't see any reason why PostgreSQL would
suffer in any way if MySQL came to an end; if anything, the marketshare for
all database engines will increase as a result of more awareness of other
open source database engines due to users and developers searching for
alternatives.

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[Alex Satrapa]

Randolf Richardson wrote:

From my perspective MySQL and PostgreSQL are completely different
projects (for starters they even use different licensing schemes -- BSD v.
GPL) that are in competition. Since PostgreSQL stands on its own without
any dependencies on MySQL, I don't see any reason why PostgreSQL would
suffer in any way if MySQL came to an end;

The headlines that "Jack and Jill Wall Street" will be reading in the
nightmarish outcome of "something bad" happening to MySQL will not be
"MySQL.com Fails To Migrate To SAPDB", it will be "Open Source Database
Disaster". The article will spin the story into rhetoric about how this
team of hackers failed to accomplish the simple task of taking code from
an ancient mainframe database system and making it work.... with the
implication woven in that if open source/free software programmers can't
even get old software to work, how can they get new software to work?

Jack and Jill Wall Street only read the headlines*. They rarely if ever
read the first paragraph, and only the smallest fraction of them read
the whole article. Out of that miniscule fraction, the ones who
actually do any groundwork of their own to figure out what the newspaper
was talking about, are yourselves and myself.

Combine that with the newspapers' habit of writing headlines to sell
newspapers, rather than tell the truth, and you can see where any
undesirable outcome in an open source project will lead. Especially with
"open source is bad" being topic-du-jour what with SCO vs World going on
right now.

Anyone who actually works with computers (as opposed to accomplishes
their work using computers) is more likely to understand that there's
more to any problem or statement than just the words. If we heard a
story about "Is Your Car And Incinerator On Wheels?", we'd be more
likely to think, "what are they on about?" - Jack and Jill Wall Street
will be thinking, "what if my car *is* an incinerator on wheels?".

Once you come to the realisation that people are not inherently good or
evil, they are just (as a whole) inherently stupid**, the whole world
starts to make a lot more sense.

Alex

* I'm going to cop out here and say "I forget where these figures come
from" - but in truth, it's just that Google can't remember for me ;)
Check out how most people recommend teaching kids to read newspapers,
and you'll find out why people develop bad habits like forming opinions
from headlines!

** In any sufficiently large group of people, the average intelligence
tends towards the minimum. I can't remember whose axiom that was... but
it refers (more or less) to the fact that in a group, people want to
conform, and conformity means not asking questions, which means
believing whatever you're told, which means that you're being stupid.
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