The Aberdeen Group looks at free databases

The Aberdeen Group looks at free databases

Posted Apr 1, 2004 17:05 UTC (Thu) by cajal (guest, #4167)
In reply to: The Aberdeen Group looks at free databases by dlang
Parent article: The Aberdeen Group looks at free databases

I agree entirely. I'm not sure where Aberdeen got their PostgreSQL info, but most of it wrong. They certainly didn't contact any of the PostgreSQL developers; many of them were quite... "amused" to read some of Aberdeen's claims.

For instance, Aberdeen claims that PG doesn't have deadlock detection (it does), doesn't support row-level locking (it does via SELECT FOR UPDATE, but you normally don't need it, thanks to multiversioning), and doesn't have updateable views (just use a RULE to get the update). The report also claims that "the next version of PostgreSQL may come as late as two years from now." I have no idea where that came from; if you look at the release notes, you'll see that PG has never taken more than a year to release a new version.

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