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PostgreSQL Wins LJ Editor's Choice Award

Posted by michael on from the mysqld-got-signal-11 dept.

Quickfoot writes "PostgreSQL has won the LJ Editor's choice award for database servers the second year in a row and three times total (2000, 2003 and 2004). With the upcoming features in version 8.0 PostgreSQL is posed to do even better in 2005."

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  1. PostgreSQL is an excellent DB by barcodez · · Score: 4, Interesting

    PostgreSQL has for a long time been an excellent choice of database with full transaction support, sequences, trigers, unicode and much much more. I personally prefer working with it to expensive alternatives such as Oracle and DB2.

    The PGAdmin3 tool also allows for those scared/lazy for the command line to use interogate it's schemas.

    What I'm not too sure about is where any company is providing support on a level one would get from Oracle or IBM. Oracle's support is actually extremely good (in my experience). Anyone point to any companies ready to provide PostgreSQL support?

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    1. Re:PostgreSQL is an excellent DB by digitalunity · · Score: 4, Interesting

      PostgreSQL is also one of the oldest and most stable database servers around. Having been started in 1986 (1977 if you count Ingres development), it has had many years more of testing and development than probably any other open source project.

      Developing for pgsql is also a lot of fun. The documentation makes it very easy to use, as well as develop for. I'd take PostgreSQL over Oracle, DB2, and especially MySQL.

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  3. And quite rightly so. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    PostgreSQL has, for some time, been more scalable and more reliable than MySQL, which is, IMNSHO, a mere toy by comparison. I've pushed PostgreSQL to several major corporate clients, who have been more than happy with it (indeed, some have added stuff on and pushed the changes back to the main source base, something I would not have considered likely from the sort of corporates I'm talking about)

    Hell, it's even for simple, single-user database apps, especially when linked to a good ORM layer (EnterpriseObjects/GNUstep DB et al). Why more people doing web development don't push it, I don't know. Everything's bloody MySQL. Blech.