Re: PostgreSQL Timeline

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:13 PM, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think I'm almost finished with the "PostgreSQL forks timeline".
>
> Here's the current status :
>
> https://raw.github.com/daamien/artwork/master/inkscape/PostgreSQL_timeline/timeline_postgresql.png
>
> There's still a lot of design work to do on the colors, the arrows, etc.
> But I think most of the information is there !
>
> Of course there's probably many errors ! Especially it's hard to to tell
> if a project is dead or just inactive... So If you're a project leader
> and I marked that your software was halted, please forgive me ! I did
> my best to find information on the interweb but I'm sure I missed a few
> forks and some dates... If you have any correction to make please edit
> directly this page :
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_databases
>
> And I will report the changes to the timeline.
>
>
> Overall I learned a lot doing this timeline ! Here's a few comments that
> came to my mind during the process :
>
> * It's very easy to create a PostgreSQL fork
> * It's very hard to maintain a PostgreSQL fork
> * PG 8.0 killed the windows ports
> * PG 9.0 killed almost all the clustering projects
>

Well, 9.0 killed some of the replication projects. Postgres-XC probably
did more than anything else to kill a lot of the clustering projects. Why
use GridSQL when you can use Postgres-XC?

> * What will PG 10.0 kill ? BI ? :)
> * Proprietary forks seem to be more resilient (not sure why)
>
>
> Once I'll have cleaned this up, maybe I'll try to make a poster out of it.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Damien
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