Forum OpenACS Q&A: Easy answer to, "Can PostgreSQL scale?"

If anyone ever asks whether or not PostgreSQL can scale, it seems that we will have a pretty good argument to make. ICANN (http://www.icann.org) has selected the Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org) to manage the .org registry.

This is of Interest because according to ISOC's original bid, they proposed using PostgreSQL as their database backend.

Pretty cool, huh?

talli

http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&cat=INDUSTRY&feed=reu&news_id=reu-n1456314&date=20021014
http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/questions-to-applicants-13.htm#Response13TheInternetSocietyISOC

It seems that Oracle took notice, too. Aaron Swartz,/a> showeed me a responce an Oracle marketroid made to an ICANN list:

PostgreSQL, like many other open source database products, has been in the market for many years with very little adoption. Unlike the open-source operating system market, the open-source database market has been unsuccessful due to the complexity of customer requirements and sophistication of the technology needed.... While there is a place in the industry for open source software. It will be many years, if ever, that an open source database matches Oracle's database technology for the availability, standards support, performance, manageability, security, application support, and stability that most real-world business applications require.

I found the quote from an ICANN blog (http://icann.blog.us/2002/09/23.html#a763). Here is the original post (http://forum.icann.org/org-eval/gartner-report/msg00000.html).

talli

That's what I get for being on multiple lists. The slashdot article was mentioned of the postgres list but not here until now.