Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Honestly, just about anything in the web application hosting vein. httpd, nginx, redis/memcached, varnish, etc. You could make an argument that MS-SQL outperforms Postgres sometimes, but in my book, the cost of entry isn’t worth it and I’ve only ever used Postgres since I left an explicitly Microsoft shop many years ago.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think that in the database space MS-SQL was never the best option at any level or at least not for long.

    Oracle could be said to still be the best amongst databases for high performance and very large datasets, but in my experience in the smaller and mid-sized databases space things like Postegres and even No-SQL databases surprassed MS-SQL already back in the late 90s, early 00s.

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