Re: [pgadmin-support] Motivations for PostgreSQL

Aaron,

Would case studies work?
I suggest you mention the Netezza data warehousing appliance - on their
site they have comparisons against other systems which will be
impressive.
Although annecdotal, in my case I had an application running on SQL
Server. It could not keep up with the data throughput due to the nature
of the application.
It was running on state of the art hardware, ubt it just could not
handle such a high OLTP load.
Moved to PostgreSQL, I am running 4x the transaction level as before,
and the database does not even feel it.
Additionally, the richness of data structures and features of PostgreSQL
allowed us to vastly improve the speed at which the presentation layer
can render the data.

The following link has some good PDF's which might help you make your
case:

http://www.netezza.com/products/prodlit.cfm

Granted, you are not selling them a Netezza appliance, but the Netezza
appliance is based on PostgreSQL. If it is good enough for those types
of solutions, it probably is so for yours as well :)

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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Aaron Bono
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:22 PM
To: Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha; Postgres
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [pgadmin-support] Motivations for
PostgreSQL


The problem is, this isn't a logical decision they are making.
They are only comfortable with Micro$oft and when I mention a database
they haven't heard of before, they cringe even though I have proven it's
ability to serve all their needs for the last year.

What it comes down to is that I need to SELL them on the idea of
using PostgreSQL or they may just take their business elsewhere just
because I don't use Microsoft. I think they may actually rather pay
tens of thousands of dollars more for that stamp from Borg Gates.

Are there good articles that compare the databases or talk about
PostgreSQL - I need to site good references.

Thanks,
Aaron


On 4/10/07, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha
<ezequias76(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:

Tranfer the responsability (time, cost, performance,
training) to your customer.

Another thing you could ask them to prove why to use the
other plataform.

There isn't many differencies about SGDBs performance
for me. I prove it by myself and the results where better than Oracle in
some cases.

I hope you could make, at least, them think about it.

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Assunto: [pgadmin-support] Motivations for PostgreSQL

I have a customer who is beginning to give more
attention to the applications we host for them. They recently asked
what database we use and I told them PostgreSQL. They had never heard
of it and really like Micro$oft SQL Server. I explained to them the
added cost and how PostgreSQL is a solid database but I need more to
convince them.

What are some good resources online that discuss
PostgreSQL and how it compares to the "more popular" databases? While
it really should be none of my customers' business what database I use
(I am an application service provider), they still make a big deal out
of it.

Thanks!


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