"ThanksButNo" <no.no.thanks (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

That's the perception that ingres corp has to change.

ThanksButNo wrote:

how about this bunch, they should be
enthusiastic..........http://www.ingres.com/
Then you thought wrong didn't you? :-)

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Well, I actually took the effort and looked at the site, curious as to
what the differences are with other databases. Other than some hollow
market speak, I found exactly 1 thing: Kerberos authentication. Can't
say I ever needed it, but it could be useful. What's the big hype?

So my enthusiasm was gone pretty fast.

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Here's my 2 cents worth. I lurk on this mailing list, but rarely pipe up,
mostly because my use of Ingres other than for my own 'enjoyment' is
minimal these days (work keeps me busy with an Iseries Db2 database.)

I DID use Ingres for about 10 years however: and I found it
absolutely trivial to set up and to maintain as a DBA.* It works out
of the box, does not need much tweaking, and simply just runs.

The old aphorism that with Ingres you need one DBA to maintain 20
databases, and with (Oracle/DB2 ...) you need 20 DBA's to maintain one
database, is not far off the mark, in my opinion.

And I've used
Oracle, and MySql (yes, it has its uses) and DB2 LUW and DB2 for Iseries,
and briefly Informix, and dabbled in Postgres.

And I still
prefer Ingres.

Ingres (and the others) are not databases: they
are database management systems, and managing databases with Ingres is a
piece of cake.


Regards
Roger



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ThanksButNo wrote:
Nope, still alive and kicking, although there doesn't look to be a Linux
version of 9.2 out yet.

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Willem Bogaerts wrote:
I wouldn't say that, Willem. I used Ingres several years ago, and it's
a decent RDBMS. Like any other RDBMS, depending on what you're doing,
it may perform better or worse than others.

Now if they just implemented recursive SQL... but I don't see that in
the latest release (yet, anyway).

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Jerry Stuckle schreef:
http://esd.ingres.com/product/Commun...ngres_Database

its there, eve a 9.3 version, you might have looked at the wrong page....

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Luuk wrote:
Ah, I was just looking at http://esd.ingres.com/ and clicking on "ingres
database" on the left - not "community projects".

You can tell it's been a while since I've visited their site :-). But I
think that's a bit confusing.

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On Jan 16, 8:10 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck... (AT) attglobal (DOT) net> wrote:
It's a very nice system, full featured, and well documented. I threw
it on to my Gentoo system a couple of years ago. The installation was
not difficult, but MySQL is going to be a simpler option for
inexperienced users.

toby wrote:
True. I used Ingres for some non-web based apps; it worked nicely. But
when I needed a database for websites on shared hosts, most had MySQL,
so I went there. Now I'm using VPS's, but I load Debian on them which
requires MySQL. So I'm lazy and just use it instead of trying to keep
two RDBMS's updated.

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