[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Chris Townley]

On 13/11/2020 12:55, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <i17drbF2bm8U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Personally, I think there should be a strong move towards
>> PostgreSQL.  A quick look at the Wiki Database Comparison
>> page shows it easily exceeds the capabilities of Oracle.
>> Sadly, Rdb is not included in the chart.  it would be very
>> interesting to see just how it compares to other database
>> systems.
> 
> I have quite a bit of experience with Rdb and a bit with PostgreSQL.
> I'm pretty sure that Rdb can do more, and is almost certainly easier to
> use for VMS folks and probably more efficient as well.  Rdb is written
> in BLISS who know the VMS internals and data structures and I doubt that
> any port which is intended to remain part of some official distribution
> could even remotely compete.
> 
> Wasn't there PostGress on VMS a while back?
> 

That was the earlier one - Ingres (ISTR origiannly RTI?) However CA 
completely lost it - I think there is a stil a half-hearted open source 
version, Not sure if it still covers VMS.

It seems there is a commercial version from Actian - not sure wherew the 
open source version went...

I used Ingres for a few years - not bad, but we were then stuck on Vax, 
so performance was pretty carp


Chris