[Techtalk] Drop in replacement for Ingres Database?

[Michelle Murrain]

At 1:41 PM -0700 9/13/02, L J Laubenheimer wrote:
>I believe that PosgreSQL is scalable to large table sizes, although 
>I don't know about UIs (Kylix? as a front end dev platform?).  I 
>hope this helps...

Postgres is supposed to be scalable, although I can't say that for 
sure, since I've not implemented a database of nearly that size. I 
think it is a fairly kick-ass dbms, and from what I've read on the 
postgres lists, there are many folks using it for enterprise-sized 
databases. (I still have yet to figure out why MySQL is more 
popular...)

Postgres is a bit weak on the UIs, though (nothing like PHPMyAdmin 
out there that I've seen, although I've heard tell someone's working 
on one - check sourceforge). There is pgaccess - the X front end for 
postgres, which isn't bad (haven't used it that much). However, the 
text-based monitor, and the various command line tools are actually 
quite well done, and make it easy to interface with the database as 
an administrator.
-- 
.Michelle

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