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<sigh> Or when the Oracle SCN advances too quickly, causing random systems to refuse connections or crash outright. Just because software is large, supported, a
by aphyr 14y ago
<sigh> Or when the Oracle SCN advances too quickly, causing random systems to refuse connections or crash outright. Just because software is large, supported, and mature doesn't mean it is free of serious design flaws.
[Edit:] Don't get me wrong, Oracle's DBs are serious business; an incredible feat of engineering. If I could afford them I'd probably use them more often. But everything in this business is a cost tradeoff--in licenses, in dev time, in risk.
- lwat 14y agoFYI PostgreSQL is free.
- aphyr 14y agoAware Postgres is free: it's an excellent database and I've used it successfully (like most of the other tools I've mentioned.) It also has spectacular failure modes; though the only ones I've personally encountered were around vacuuming.
- lwat 14y agoSo if these incredibly mature and robust systems are an 'operational nightmare' I'd like to hear what software systems ARE up to your operational standards? How often did you manage to spectacularly fail PostgreSQL to qualify it an 'operational nightmare'?
- aphyr 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974403 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974403 (reply threshold is high enough for me to post now)
- whatusername 14y agoI wonder if NonStop SQL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop_SQL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop_SQL ) might count..