I'm not aware of one, but I would also be very interested. Certainly Postgres is much more standards compliant. In terms of developer features, Postgres is also much more advanced. Sybase also has some unusual limitations in wierd areas like the maximum number of bytes of index per row. Sybase would traditionally beat the pants of Postgres when it comes to database replication but I have not had the opportunity to test out Slony. I don't know how they would stack up in terms of scalability. I've never reached the limits of either, having gotten as far as a million or so rows per table in postgres (on cheap hardware) and 10s of millions in sybase (on multi-cpu sun hardware). The traditional wisdom would be that Sybase is very very fast on large datasets. As Postgres (and Oracle) have improved and Sybase has somwhat stagnated, this standard wisdom may not be as true as it used to be. Not knowing your reason for asking, I would imagine the biggest two questions to come up by decision makers would be speed and stability under a large load and replication options. Of course if you have existing code, porting issues will come into it. A commonly overlooked comparison for "always on" systems is to compare what sorts of operations you can do to databases without needing to restart the server or drop tables, lock out users etc. Sybase is not particularly expensive (compared to say Oracle), but the support is not world class and new features come less often than in MS Powerpoint. If you google "sybase versus oracle" you will get a lot of results - this might be a good way to start a sybase weakness/strength list. Then you could insert the postgres features/weaknesses into the same list. You would want to add postgres unique strengths like open source, standards compliance, support community etc. On 3/29/06, Reimer <carlosreimer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does anyone know of any recent comparisons of postgres vs Sybase? > > Thanks in advance! > > Reimer
