On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:24:51PM -0700, TJ O'Donnell wrote: > I've written some extensions to postgres to implement > chemical structure searching. I get inquiries about > the performance of postgres vs. oracle. This is a huge > topic, with lots of opinions and lots of facts. But, > today I got some feedback stating the opinion that: > "Postgres performance diminishes with large tables > (we?ll be going to upwards of hundreds of millions of rows)." > > Is this pure speculation, opinion, known fact? > Does anyone know of measured performance of postgres > vs. oracle, specifically with very large tables? You're more likely to run into problems with large fields being toasted than plain large tables. IIRC Oracle's large object support is better than PostgreSQL's. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
