Sun Considers PostgreSQL
05 Oct '05 - 23:25 by benrw00t! Sun has its eyes on PostgreSQL! This is great news. I've been advicating this for a long time. MySQL is all the rage, but they've been playing catchup to PostgreSQL for years. MySQL 5 has made some huge strides, but I'm still a rock solid PostgreSQL fan. The only place it seems to me that MySQL has a leg up is in replication, where things are nicely integrated in MySQL whereas PostgreSQL requires you to do some homework.
I'd love to see this happen. Others have, in the past, cited some database aquisitions that Sun's made in the past (some German company's database if I recall, but can't find the source) of super bad-ass databases that Sun bought and forgot about, but reguardless I'd still like to see some big vendor support behind Postgres. For too long its seemed like people have had a "your the biggest, your the best, and we don't care" approach to Postgres... Sun could change this, and I hope they will. Here is to hoping.
I'd highly encourage you to have a look at PostgreSQL yourself and consider playing with the 8.1 Beta. If your interested in PostgreSQL replication, consider Slony-I and PgCluster.
If you are a PostgreSQL fan yourself, now would be a good time to make your voice heard and let Sun know that you support the move. Obviously Oracle will continue to be the most featureful and powerful database avalible, but for applications where you just can't pony up that kinda money, PostgreSQL is where we should be. I tend to see the spectrum of ass kickingness like this:
- Oracle 10g: Immense power and flexability but you have to chop of several limbs to pay for it, and the 20% of that again each year. Never the less, the best Enterprise Grade Database avalible.
- PostgreSQL: All the big toys, none of the pain. The next generation database that has set the standard for open source enterprise class databases.
- SQLite: One of the koolest open source project on the planet, more power than you could image without any of the headaches and nothing to manage. For small applications sometimes even PostgreSQL doesn't make alot of sense, and its just one more thing to monitor. SQLite fills a huge number of holes and blows BerkeleyDB into the dust.
Sun is already an Oracle partner. Check. Solaris already ships with SQLite (/lib/svc/bin, used by SMF). Check. Now lets fill in that spectrum of power with PostgreSQL.
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