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NewsForge - “I’ve been working with databases for many years. I started out with Oracle and Informix then used a little Sybase. Then I discovered open source and used mSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL pretty extensively. Most recently I’ve been working with Oracle again, and just started playing with MSSQL. Why is any of this important? It’s important because I’ve seen the good and the bad of all these systems. And perhaps even more important are my conclusions after 10 years of working with RDBMS.”
It is a decent enough article. Some of the reader comments are very good too.
I prefer using Oracle for enterprise class applications that need real time data manipulation, mainly because of its stability, and recovery features.
However, with every version of Oracle - now at 9i - they’ve been adding more and more features that are really beginning to look like bloat.
I use PostgreSQL for my personal applications. I will choose Postgres for web applications too. I don’t like MySQL that much.