CA Executive Outlines Open Source Plans For Ingres

Rob Westervelt writes "In this Q&A, a top CA executive outlines CA's plans to take on Oracle, MySQL and others with the newly open sourced Ingres database. The status of CA's Million Dollar Challenge to open source developers is also explained."

Comments

What's CA?

[mapinguari]

California? Canada? Cellular Automata? Certificate Authority?

Might help to put "Computer Associates" somewhere in the text.

Re:out of the frying pan into the fire?

[Phouk]

I've been looking for an RDBMS for running on OpenBSD and Postgresql doesnt quite cut it with the lack of certain features.

Come on, don't tease us ;) - which ones?

Postgresql holds a niche, the spot between baby databases like mysql/sqlite and RDBMSes

One of the open-source, "real" RDBMSes that has been missing in the discussion so far, is MaxDB, former SAP DB. We've got it in production in a "serious" app (real money, heavy load), and so far it really does scale well with bigger hardware (additional processors, RAM, disks).

One disadvantage with MaxDB is that it is lacking in mindshare compared to some others, although that is slowly improving - Google already finds three times more hits for MaxDB than SAP DB. Until now, there are no good books about it.

Another disadvantage is its stored procedure language - rather primitive and heavily underdocumented. PostgreSQL, for example, shines in that respect.