Bob Zurek of EnterpriseDB posted a blog entry today titled, "We slammed into a brick wall with MySQL". If you read his blog entry, the information he is referencing is in this press release, FortiusOne Migrates GeoCommons Intelligent Mapping Website to EnterpriseDB Advanced Server.

If you read that press release, it says:

“We slammed into a brick wall with MySQL,” said Chris Ingrassia, chief technology officer, FortiusOne. “As an example, MySQL’s rather limited and incomplete spatial support dramatically impacted performance. We were looking for an affordable database solution, but we required enterprise-class features and performance that MySQL simply couldn’t deliver. Plus, philosophically we want to support …

I have been hearing a bit of buzz about EnterpriseDB latley. I think the main reason is that they just secured $7 million in venture capital funding.

What is EnterpriseDB?

EnterpriseDB is based on the source code for the open source PostgreSQL database server. PostgreSQL is the most fully featured open source database out there, they already support pretty much everything on the MySQL 5 feature list.

What the EnterpriseDB people have done is taken the PostgreSQL source code and added features to make it more compatable with Oracle.

EnterpriseDB 2005?s built-in compatibility features allow most existing Oracle-based applications to run unchanged. If you are building new applications, there is no need to learn new versions of SQL syntax, …