Re: PostgreSQL vs MariaDB

Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-03-25T06:43:54Z
Lists: pgsql-general
What RDBMS is your data currently on?

On 3/25/23 01:15, Inzamam Shafiq wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> We have a complex running, and we will be having a lot of Insert, update 
> and deletes. We have many partitioned tables with huge data and some 
> complex SQL is written at the application logic, some analytical 
> functions, union/intersect etc. clauses and also we have materialized 
> views used at the DB level. There are some triggers and complex procedures 
> as well.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Inzamam Shafiq/
> /Sr. DBA/
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Ben Chobot <bench@silentmedia.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2023 7:08 PM
> *To:* Inzamam Shafiq <inzamam.shafiq@hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
> *Subject:* Re: PostgreSQL vs MariaDB
> Inzamam Shafiq wrote on 3/24/23 4:07 AM:
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> Hope you are doing well.
>>
>> Can someone please list pros and cons of MariaDB vs PostgreSQL that 
>> actually needs serious consideration while choosing the right database 
>> for large OLTP DBs (Terabytes)?
>
> That's a very broad question, which will take far more effort to answer 
> than most people are willing to provide.
>
> I would suggest describing your specific use case and asking how well 
> PostgreSQL will fit it. You clearly have a lot of data, for example, so is 
> that distributed across many tables? Large blobs or lots of rows? Lots of 
> inserts? Reads? Updates? Those sorts of things.
>
> Maybe somebody on this PostgreSQL list might even know MariaDB well enough 
> to compare and contrast the two for you.

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