> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Marlowe > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:57 PM > To: Will Rutherdale (rutherw) > Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Is there a meaningful benchmark? > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) > <rutherw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Even if such a question is answered, it isn't going to be the only > > factor. For example I have collected reasonable numbers already on > > footprints of different RDBMSs, because embedded guys might find that > > important if they're restricted to 64MB of flash. On the other hand > if > > they went with some of the newer solid state drives with gigs of > space, > > then a few packages using 10s of MB wouldn't be such a problem any > more. > > If you're looking at embedded usage, and footprint is an issue (it > usually is even if you think it won't be) look at sqllite. Pretty > good embedded db and lightweight. Pgsql is not intended to compete in > the embedded space. FastDB is another good option there (it's a portable, embedded memory mapped database): http://www.garret.ru/fastdb.html An advantage for the SQLite option is that the grammar is a subset of PostgreSQL grammar, so if you need to scale up, you have a ready path. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
