Re: The future of Java

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:05 -0500
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Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Roedy Green wrote:

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:59:04 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
<martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

How do you rate H2 against Derby and HSQL?


For a comparison of PosGreSQL and MySQL see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/postgresql.html

The information is a few years old.


#PostGres has many data types.

Most databases has.

#You can write triggers in Oracle stored procedure language PL/SQL or in
other languages such as Java.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/triggers.html

does not list Java but several other languages.

And even though PL/pgSQL is very similar to Oracle PL/SQL, then
I assume that Oracle prefer it not to be called Oracle PL/SQL.

 > I understand that Derby is fast, but ram resident only.

Not true.

 > It is for
 > small databases only.

Probably.


I forgot:

#PostGres does not crash under heavy loads.

No databases are supposed to do that.

Arne

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