MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 28, 2006 10:27 UTC (Fri) by denials (subscriber, #3413)
Parent article: MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)

DB2's free version has a maximum limit of 2 CPUs, 4GB of RAM, and an
unlimited database size, which may be "crippled" (what an ugly term) in
comparison to its enterprise edition product -- but I'm sure that limit is
more than what 99% of MySQL databases run on.

Oracle, on the other hand, is capped at 1CPU and 1GB of RAM, which is
hardly enough room to run Oracle in...

Ah well, talking smack is just more proof that MySQL AB is a real
profit-oriented corporation. You don't see a PostgreSQL CEO making these
kinds of statements, because PostgreSQL is a community project and doesn't
have a CEO; they don't need to worry about market share, profits, or media
coverage.

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MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 28, 2006 13:00 UTC (Fri) by jmansion (guest, #36515) [Link]

> Oracle, on the other hand, is capped at 1CPU and 1GB of RAM, which is
hardly enough room to run Oracle in...

Well, those of us who marvelled at the sheer unbridled horsepower of an SMP Sparcserver 10 would probably have been over the moon with a single top of the line Opteron and 'only' 1GB of database cache. ;-/

I would've thought a single Opteron could give most small RAID arrays a pretty good kicking, anyway.