At 08:28 AM 2/7/2002 -0800, Rob Schuff wrote:

>... there needs to be a ... feature-by-feature comparison of the three. A
>white paper I suppose...i.e. some strong marketing. Is there such a thing
>planned, in existence, etc?

Anyone on this list who has experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, please
contact me. I can pull together some feature lists from the documentation,
but there's nothing like real experience. MySQL has a comparison tester
called crashme which works very badly with Firebird. If anyone would
like to try to improve it, that would help us a lot.

For a talk that I'm about to give at an OSDN (open source developers'
network) conference, I'm suggesting that:

MySQL is designed to be a blindingly fast back-end to a web server
but lacks features needed for read-write processing.

PostgreSQL lacks the "active database" features of Firebird -
triggers for view updates, computed columns, select procedures,
etc. Their triggers and stored procedures seem more like our
UDFs.

Do remember that our competition is not MySQL or PosgreSQL, but
Microsoft and Oracle. There's space in the world for different
databases with different focus.


Regards,

Ann