What kind of mission?

Posted Jan 4, 2010 7:42 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: There is also Ingres by qu1j0t3
Parent article: The ongoing MySQL campaign

If Ingres actually delivers all of that, then it must have changed a lot since I used it (one of the last proprietary versions). It stunk so bad it was painful.

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Why not try it and see?

Posted Jan 4, 2010 15:23 UTC (Mon) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link] (2 responses)

(There's really no other way to know, is there?)

Life is too short

Posted Jan 4, 2010 22:42 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (1 responses)

Personal experience is the best way, but not the only one. In fact there is a whole industry devoted to letting people know what products are good and which aren't, and endless community forums where people give their opinion. And of course there is the comment section of LWN where I have learned more than in all other places combined.

When these resources keep quiet about something, usually it is not worth trying.

Life is too short

Posted Jan 4, 2010 23:52 UTC (Mon) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link]

I would not expect to find many anecdotes about Ingres in this comments section.

There are many database systems (relational and non-relational) performing very well for relatively
small user communities (have you heard of GT/M, for example?) That the mainstream doesn't talk
about them much does not correlate well with their quality, reliability, richness of features, level of
innovation etc. Naturally MySQL gets most attention. But in fact a wider survey of the field turns up
much more interesting things.

If you want for something to make the Slashdot front page, you'll miss many good things.