[development] Oracle buys SleepyCat

[Khalid B]

On 2/15/06, Rowan Kerr <rowan at stasis.org> wrote:
> Gordon Heydon wrote:
> > On the other hand this will mean that we will need to use another
> > database.
>
> Great chance to make sure PostgreSQL becomes treated as a 1st class
> citizen :) And possibly improve the db abstraction in general..

I would not mind that. Technically PostgreSQL is technically better than
MySQL (at least it always has transactions, and we can enforce referrential
integrity).

Where I am concerned is hosting company acceptance and hence widespread use.

Drupal currently can run everywhere, because PHP and MySQL are
everywhere.

What I cannot predict clearly is whether hosting companies would all move
to PostgreSQL, or stay with SQLite, or what, and when ...