[bind10-dev] MySQL vs PosgreSQL data source flamewar - FIGHT!

[John Lumby]

disclosure  -  I work for BlueCat Networks , who sells a packaged solution using bind,  dhcp and postgresql.

  Our experience of using postgresql is that it has three key strengths (in order):
  1.   strong user community and excellent responsiveness from the developer community.
  2.   extremely powerful language functionality including numerous important extensions to the SQL standard
  3.   very high priority given to data integrity and robustness.

  We have evolved our product over 8 years, using postgresql from the start, and found that
  postgresql development has more than kept pace with our database requirements.  Of all the
  software we use it has been the most trouble-free.  We don't think any other open-source database
  would have matched it.  We now have thousands of native SQL statements and probably the same
  number of generated object-relational queries in our product and postgresql has handled our mix
  without fuss.  Other than needing to pay attention to tuning and some occasional query rewrites
  for performance, we have been happy with postgresql.



John Lumby
Database Architect
BlueCat Networks Inc.