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Open Source Ingres Swings At Oracle, SQL Server

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-there-are-free-databases dept.

Rob Westervelt writes "Computer Associates is making its open sourced Ingres DBMS widely available today on Windows and Linux, pitching its mature features and 64-bit support at Oracle and SQL Server customers."

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  1. Re:Performance? by Red+Pointy+Tail · · Score: 3, Insightful


    I think it is more prudent to ask how this compares to PostgreSQL and Firebird, both in terms of features and performance. mySQL runs blazing fast because it doesn't have all the bells-and-whistles, which are of course sometimes necessary for enterprise database development.