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Go on. They give you a domain? I never saw that... Link please?
You can link your domain to the mail. And have unlimited number of inboxes. https://pdd.yandex.ru/domains_add/ This is in Russian. Maybe there is English version
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Go on. They give you a domain? I never saw that... Link please?
You can link your domain to the mail. And have unlimited number of inboxes. https://pdd.yandex.ru/domains_add/ This is in Russian. Maybe there is English version
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American email hosting, what could go wrong?
Yeah, I always find it amusing when people find russia and china on a lower moral/ethical ground when everything on american soil is equally watched and processed. if not by nsa, it's for ads.
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Let's talk Oracle vs Postgres rather than USA vs Russia
So - as a long time Oracle DBA (who also loves Postgres), I've been seeing a lot of companies do this sort of move. There are a couple of downsides, but really - there's a lot more upsides to Postgres than downsides (IMO).
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Go on. They give you a domain? I never saw that... Link please?
You can link your domain to the mail. And have unlimited number of inboxes. https://pdd.yandex.ru/domains_add/ This is in Russian. Maybe there is English version
Just replace .ru with .com and everything else is the same, except the language.
I just registered and yandex mail really seems like a fine service.
To stay on topic: Does anyone else have stories of moving massive datasets to postgres from other commercial databases? We're looking to make the switch from SQL Server when 9.6 comes out (and proves to be more scalable).
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1. Price if obvious reason of migration, and in their case (multiple datacenters and "-1 datacenter" policy) it was huge benefit. 2. The other concern was Oracle's slow bugfixing and reaction to feedback. So, this is a good case showing how a company can stop wasting millions of $ for proprietary software, joining Open Source community, contributing to it and taking benefits from tech collaboration with core develope…
So, they say 'shop.oracle.com' was their 'main reason' for switching but that reads as a half-joke, half-serious riff on Oracle's famous ability to extract money from people; the other salient points I can find are: - PL/SQL was harder to deploy than PL/pgSQL (as stated later) - Only synchronous interface in Oracle's OCCI - Problems with Oracle's development environments - Not very responsive support from Oracle. But…
To stay on topic: Does anyone else have stories of moving massive datasets to postgres from other commercial databases? We're looking to make the switch from SQL Server when 9.6 comes out (and proves to be more scalable).
On the other hand, PostgreSQL can take advantage of ZFS compression which is great for archiving cold data.
* Reasons to migrate were: unresponsive support, inconvenient deployment, closed source, huge cost.
* It took just 10 man-years to rewrite whole project from Oracle to Postgres (e.g. 10 developers, 1 year), which is amazing.
* They benefited from Postgres data versioning, arrays and composite types.
* They liked writing logic on PL/pgSQL more than on Oracle PL/SQL: reduced code size, increased test coverage.
* Easier deployment of changes due no library cache locks.
Great thing for community is that Yandex now commited to Postgres, meaning it will get more testing and bug-fixes faster.
So having read through the slides, these are not bad slides, but I'm missing the 'real' wow-factor of why Postgres was a better choice in the end than Oracle. There's no doubt that the rewrite (which, because of PL/SQL -> PL/pgSQL, there was a rewrite) benefited them, but all I can glean from the slides is Postgres hasn't failed them yet and the rewrite worked. So as much as I want to talk about Oracle vs. Postgres,…