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Re:Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired f... by thebeardedone on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:38PM (#15886892)
I did not know that there is a clause in the license agreement about not being allowed to disclose benchmarks of databases.

Recently I came into discussion regarding why someone chose to use Oracle instead of Postgres; the argument that someone brought up was that they did not know how Postgres scaled. After pointing out that the data that will be stored will be most likely be a few hundred GB (in an exaggerated worst case scenario) and that Postgres is said to handle 100's of TB of data, they capitulated and said that customers trust Oracle (even though they never see or touch the database).

Personally I would be very interested in seeing comparisons between PG, Oracle and MSSQL as well for different data-sets/use-case scenarios. This would really help as a reference in the future when someone else is making critical decisions which might not appear to make sense.

EDIT: This sounds like a very shady clause; anyone with law insights know whether this would be enforceable in the EU?

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Re:Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired f... by DenisM on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:00PM (#15887028)
There is a direct comparison, it’s called TPCC TPCD TPCE TPCR family of benchmarks. Each company tries to make themselves look good with those, but they have to follow the rules.
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Re:Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired f... by ghaff on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:35PM (#15887226)
I haven't dealt with those for a while but, as I recall, all the hardware and software companies in the benchmark (which isn't a comparison except insofar as other companies have also published a benchmark) have to agree to publish. Furthermore, the results are audited and there are various rules about how you can use and talk about the benchmark. (And they cost BIG money to run--into the millions $.)
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Re:Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired f... by leggomylibro on Saturday December 09, 2017 @04:58PM (#15888406)
It is very shady, but also very prevalent. I think that even FreeRTOS - an open-source embedded RealTime Operating System library - had it until Amazon recently MIT'd it.

"If our code is not the best, you MUST NOT TELL ANYONE." Yeah, that's healthy...

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Re:Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired f... by user5994461 on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:48PM (#15887688)
Postgre doesn't handle hundreds of TB of data.
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Re:Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired f... by nl on Saturday December 09, 2017 @06:15PM (#15888744)
10 years ago it could handle 2PB. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2535825/business-intel...
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Re:Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired f... by anarazel on Saturday December 09, 2017 @03:58PM (#15888107)
It's postgres or postgresql, not postgre.
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