db performance

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> Let me elucidate my situation a bit, the organization where I am 
> currently employed is split into factions. The faction I run is heavily 
> OSS friendly , the application development/ DBA faction is not!

yes. i can imagine. I'd always imagine what it could be like to setup 
your FR/MySQL solution and have it ticking away, then letting them go 
ahead with the IAS/Oracle/Consultancy route... but I feel its unethical
(waste of money, waste of time, wrong tools etc). however, if they DO
want to pay 50k EUR then let them - FreeRADIUS, MySQL + Linux could
always do with some hard cash to developer time! ;-)

> What I need is proof positive that mysql / postgresql is at least as 
> good as oracle for a radius DB.

pah. can of worms and a mix of politics. there are PLENTY of articles
that feature such details and reports. the issue of FreeRADIUS is nothing
here - the importance is how each database scales, how many trans/sec it can
do. how you can configure failover/redundancy/hot-spare etc. but support
is a major factor in many context.

alan