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Database upstart TransLattice has burped out a new free version of the Postgres database, based on tech it acquired from StormDB. It claims the softweare is ideal for supporting modern web-based applications. The company reckons this database, dubbed Postgres-XL, has "extreme online transaction processing scalability and …

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  1. Alan Brown Silver badge

    "PostgreSQL is one of the most widely used open-source relational databases, and is seen by many as a good alternative to more-basic systems such as MySQL or MariaDB."

    Apart from anything else, it simple scales better. MySQL is good up to a point but its memory consumption quickly grows out of control.

    I have a 48Gb box which was struggling on MySQL (350 million records). PostgreSQL is working very comfortably on it, using less than 12Gb.

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  2. Justin Clift

    Interesting...

    Hopefully this goes well, and impartial benchmarks show good results.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    That link

    Did you really mean to point the WebScaleSQL link to a Microsoft Azure article? Or did you perhaps mean to use this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/27/webscalesql_launch/.

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