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[Qsos-commits] qsos/sheet/RDBMS mysql/mysql-5.1.qsos postgresq...


From: QSOS-Engine Auto-commit
Subject: [Qsos-commits] qsos/sheet/RDBMS mysql/mysql-5.1.qsos postgresq...
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:48:21 +0000

CVSROOT:        /sources/qsos
Module name:    qsos
Changes by:     QSOS-Engine Auto-commit <qsosengine>    10/01/04 16:48:21

Added files:
        sheet/RDBMS/mysql: mysql-5.1.qsos 
        sheet/RDBMS/postgresql: postgresql-8.4.qsos 

Log message:
        Updates of MySQL and PostgreSQL evaluations. Contribution of Carlos 
Eduardo B. Augusto <address@hidden>

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qsos/sheet/RDBMS/mysql/mysql-5.1.qsos?cvsroot=qsos&rev=1.1
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qsos/sheet/RDBMS/postgresql/postgresql-8.4.qsos?cvsroot=qsos&rev=1.1

Patches:
Index: mysql/mysql-5.1.qsos
===================================================================
RCS file: mysql/mysql-5.1.qsos
diff -N mysql/mysql-5.1.qsos
--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ mysql/mysql-5.1.qsos        4 Jan 2010 16:48:21 -0000       1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,664 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<document>
+   <header>
+      <authors>
+         <author>
+            <name>Carlos Augusto</name>
+            <email>address@hidden</email>
+         </author>
+      </authors>
+      <dates>
+         <creation>20051025</creation>
+         <validation></validation>
+      </dates>
+      <language>en</language>
+      <appname>MySQL Server</appname>
+      <release>5.1</release>
+      <licenseid>31</licenseid>
+      <licensedesc>GNU GPL</licensedesc>
+      <url>http://www.mysql.com</url>
+      <desc>Relational Database Management System available under a dual 
license (GPL or proprietary)</desc>
+      <demourl>Not applicable</demourl>
+      <qsosformat>1.7</qsosformat>
+      <qsosappfamily>RDBMS</qsosappfamily>
+      <qsosappname>mysql</qsosappname>
+      <qsosspecificformat>1</qsosspecificformat>
+   </header>
+   <section name="generic" title="Generic section">
+      <desc>Generic criteria from QSOS version 1.6</desc>
+      <element name="intrinsicdurability" title="Intrinsic durability">
+         <desc>Intrinsic durability</desc>
+         <element name="maturity" title="Maturity">
+            <desc>Maturity</desc>
+            <element name="age" title="Age">
+               <desc0>less than 3 months</desc0>
+               <desc1>if between 3 months and 3 years</desc1>
+               <desc2>after 3 years</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL is more than 10 years old</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="stability" title="Stability">
+               <desc0>Unstable software with numerous releases or patches 
generating side effects</desc0>
+               <desc1>Stabilized production release existing but old. 
Difficulties to stabilize developpement releases</desc1>
+               <desc2>Stabilized software. Releases provide bug fixes 
corrections but mainly new functionalities</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Branch 5.1 of MySQL seems to be stable</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="historyknowproblems" title="History">
+               <desc0>Software knows several problems which can be 
prohibitive</desc0>
+               <desc1>No know major problem or crisis</desc1>
+               <desc2>History of good management of crisis situations</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>For a long time MySQL was not much considered by DBA, 
due to table locks on MyISAM tables and the lack of functionalities like stored 
procedures or transactions</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="forkprobability" title="Fork">
+               <desc0>Software is very likely to be forked in the 
future</desc0>
+               <desc1>Software comes from a fork but has very few chances of 
being forked in the future</desc1>
+               <desc2>Software has very little chance of being forked. It does 
not come from a fork either</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Mature product. MySQL AB. owns a large part of source 
code and MySQL seems to be protected against forks</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="adoption" title="Adoption">
+            <desc>Adoption by community and industry</desc>
+            <element name="popularity" title="Popularity">
+               <desc0>Very few users identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Detectable use on Internet</desc1>
+               <desc2>Numerous users, numerous references</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL is the most popular open source RDBMS</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="references" title="References">
+               <desc0>None</desc0>
+               <desc1>Few refences, non critical usages</desc1>
+               <desc2>Often implemented for critical applications</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL has numerous references including Yahoo! or the 
NASA</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="contributingcommunity" title="Contributing 
Community">
+               <desc0>No community or without real activity (forum, mailing 
list, ...)</desc0>
+               <desc1>Existing community with a notable activity</desc1>
+               <desc2>Strong community: big activity on forums, numerous 
contributors and advocates</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Around 70 external contributors according to the 
project. Very important activity on forums and blogs.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="books" title="books">
+               <desc0>No book about the software</desc0>
+               <desc1>Less than 5 books about the software are 
available</desc1>
+               <desc2>More than 5 books about software are available, in 
several languages</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Numerous books related to MySQL, in several 
languages</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="developmentleadership" title="Development leadership">
+            <desc>Organisation and leadership of developments</desc>
+            <element name="leadingteam" title="Leading team">
+               <desc0>1 to 2 individuals involved, not clearly 
identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Between 2 and 5 independent people</desc1>
+               <desc2>More than 5 people</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Members of the leading team are known and clearly 
identified</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="managementstyle" title="Management style">
+               <desc0>Complete dictatorship</desc0>
+               <desc1>Enlightened despotism</desc1>
+               <desc2>Council of architects with identified leader (e.g: 
KDE)</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>MySQL AB (employer of the core team) decides 
orientations of developments</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="activity" title="Activity">
+            <desc>Activity of the project and around the software</desc>
+            <element name="developersidentificationturnover" 
title="Developers, identification, turnover">
+               <desc0>Less than 3 developers, not clearly identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Between 4 and 7 developers, or more unidentified 
developers with important turnover</desc1>
+               <desc2>More than 7 developers, very stable team</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Core team about 40 developers, 70 identified external 
contributors. The core team is stabilized since its members are employed by 
MySQL AB.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="activityonbugs" title="Activity on bugs">
+               <desc0>Slow reactivity in forum or on mailing list, or nothing 
regarding bug fixes in releases note</desc0>
+               <desc1>Detectable activity but without process clearly exposed, 
loing reaction/resolution time</desc1>
+               <desc2>Strong reactivity based on roles and tasks 
assignment</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="activityonfunctionalities" title="Activity on 
functionalities">
+               <desc0>No or few new functionalities</desc0>
+               <desc1>Evolution of the product driven by the core team or by 
user's request without any clearly explained process</desc1>
+               <desc2>Tool(s) to manage feature requests, strong interaction 
with roadmap</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>Features requests can be entered in the bugtracker 
system</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="activityonreleases" title="Activity on releases">
+               <desc0>Very weak activity on both production and development 
releases</desc0>
+               <desc1>Activity on production and developmenet releases. 
Frequent minor releases (bug fixes)</desc1>
+               <desc2>Important activity with frequent minor releases (bugs 
fixes) and planned major releases relating to the roadmap forcast</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Regular new releases, up to several per month in 
stabilization phase</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="industrializedsolution" title="Industrialized solution">
+         <desc>Industrialization level of the project</desc>
+         <element name="independenceofdevelopments" title="Independence of 
developments">
+            <desc0>Developments realized at 100% by employees of a single 
company</desc0>
+            <desc1>60% maximum</desc1>
+            <desc2>20% maximum</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment>MySQL AB is the unique copyrigth owner of most part of 
source code (except some storage engines) and employs core team 
members</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="services" title="Services">
+            <desc>Services offering</desc>
+            <element name="training" title="Training">
+               <desc0>No offer of training identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one 
language or is provided by a single contractor</desc1>
+               <desc2>Rich offers provided by several contractors, in serveral 
languages and split into modules of gradual levels</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL AB has more than 52 authorized partners 
including many certified partners</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="support" title="Support">
+               <desc0>No offer of support except via public forums and mailing 
lists</desc0>
+               <desc1>Offer exists but is provided by a single contractor 
without strong commitment quality of services</desc1>
+               <desc2>Multiple service providers with strong commitment (e.g: 
guaranteed resolution time)</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL AB offers support services and several other 
services also exist in the MySQL partnership program</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="consulting" title="Consulting">
+               <desc0>No offer of consulting service</desc0>
+               <desc1>Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one 
language or is provided by a single contractor</desc1>
+               <desc2>Consulting services provided by different contractors in 
serveral languages</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>More than 250 service providers worlwide with 27 
"MySQL Network" certified partners</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="documentation" title="Documentation">
+            <desc0>No user documentation</desc0>
+            <desc1>Documentation exists but shifted in time, is restricted to 
one language or is poorly detailed</desc1>
+            <desc2>Documentation always up to date, translated and possibly 
adapted to different target readers (end user, sysadmin, manager, ...)</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Extensive documentation (reference manual, cluster, 
connectors, graphical tools). The reference manual is available in several 
languages (english, german, french, japanese, portuguese, russian)</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="qualityassurance" title="Quality Assurance">
+            <desc>Quality assurance process</desc>
+            <element name="quality" title="Quality Assurance">
+               <desc0>No QA process</desc0>
+               <desc1>Identifies QA process but not much formalized and with 
no tool</desc1>
+               <desc2>Automatic testing process included in code's life-cycle 
with publication of results</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Integrated test suite (make test), extensible with an 
interpretor (mysqltest) and with possibility to automatically submit bug 
reports (mysqlbug)</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="tools" title="Tools">
+               <desc0>No bug or feature request management tool</desc0>
+               <desc1>Standard tools provided (for instance by a hosting 
forge) but poorly used</desc1>
+               <desc2>Very active use of tools for roles/tasks allocation and 
progress monitoring</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Complete bug tracking and feature request tool 
available (affectations, statistics, search). cf. 
http://bugs.mysql.com</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="packaging" title="Packaging">
+         <desc>Packaging for various operating systems</desc>
+         <element name="packagingbsd" title="BSD">
+            <desc>BSD</desc>
+            <element name="packagingfreebsd" title="FreeBSD">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for FreeBSD</desc0>
+               <desc1>A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't 
have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A official port exists in FreeBSD</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingmacosx" title="Mac OS X">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Mac OS X</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL AB provides dmg files</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingnet" title="NetBSD">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for NetBSD</desc0>
+               <desc1>A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't 
have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A official port exists in NetBSD</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingopen" title="OpenBSD">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for OpenBSD</desc0>
+               <desc1>A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't 
have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A official port exists in OpenBSD</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packaginglinux" title="Linux">
+            <desc>Linux</desc>
+            <element name="packagingdebian" title="Debian">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Debian</desc0>
+               <desc1>A Debian package exists but it has important issues or 
it doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>A package exists but not official support</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingmandriva" title="Mandriva">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Mandriva</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingredhat" title="Red Hat">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Red Hat/Fedora</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL AB provides RPM for Red Hat Entreprise 
Linux.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingsuse" title="SuSE">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for SuSE</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>5.1 is available for SuSE 9, 10 and 11.</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packagingsource" title="Source">
+            <desc0>Software can't be installed from source without lot of 
work</desc0>
+            <desc1>Installation from source is limited and depends on very 
strict conditions (OS, arch, lib, ...)</desc1>
+            <desc2>Installation from source is easy</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Installation from source  is well documented in the MySQL 
Reference Manual</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packagingunix" title="Unix">
+            <desc>Unix</desc>
+            <element name="packagingaix" title="AIX">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for AIX</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A stable package is provided for AIX</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>Needs to compile the code and there are specific 
instructions for AIX
+http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ibm-aix.html</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packaginghpux" title="HP-UX">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for HP-UX</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A stable package is provided for HP-UX</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>MySQL AB provides tar and depot files</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingsolaris" title="Solaris">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Solaris</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support (e.g: SunFreeware.com )</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is supported by Sun for Solaris</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>MySQL is "managed" by Sun but not fully supported (Sun 
provides existing patches and escalates new bugs to the developer 
community)</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packagingwindows" title="Windows">
+            <desc0>The project can't be installed on Windows</desc0>
+            <desc1>A package exists but it is limited or has important issues 
or just cover some specific Windows release (e.g: Windows 2000 and Windows 
XP)</desc1>
+            <desc2>Windows is full supported and a package is provided</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>An installer is provided, it includes an Configuration 
Wizard</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="exploitability" title="Exploitability">
+         <desc>Exploitability level</desc>
+         <element name="easeofuseergonomics" title="Ease of use, ergonomics">
+            <desc0>Difficult to use, requires an in depth knowledge of the 
software functionality</desc0>
+            <desc1>Austere and very technical ergonomics</desc1>
+            <desc2>GUI including help functions and elaborated 
ergonomics</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Easy-to-use solution, tools with user friendly 
GUIs</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="administrationmonitoring" title="Administration / 
Monitoring">
+            <desc0>No administrative or monitoring functionalities</desc0>
+            <desc1>Existing, functionalities but uncomplete and or need 
improvement</desc1>
+            <desc2>Complete and easy-to-use administration and monitoring 
functionalities. Possible integration with external tools (e.g: SNMP, syslog, 
...)</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>The Enterprise Monitor tool is only available if erolling 
on Enterprise subscription</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="technicaladaptability" title="Technical adaptability">
+         <desc>Technical adaptability</desc>
+         <element name="modularity" title="Modularity">
+            <desc0>Monolithic software</desc0>
+            <desc1>Presence of hight level modules allowing a first level of 
software adaptation</desc1>
+            <desc2>Modular conception, allowing easy adaptation of the 
software by selecting or creating modules</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Multi storage engine support is a very modular 
feature</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="codemodification" title="Code modification">
+            <desc0>Everything by hand</desc0>
+            <desc1>Recompilation possible but complex without any tools or 
documentation</desc1>
+            <desc2>Recompilation with tools (e.g: make, ANT, ...) and 
documentation provided</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Source code publicly downloadable or via BitKeeper. 
Compilation done with GNU tools (gcc, make, libtools)</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="codeextension" title="Code extension">
+            <desc0>Any modification requires code recompilation</desc0>
+            <desc1>Architecture designed for static extension but requires 
recompilation</desc1>
+            <desc2>Principle of plugin, architecture designed for dynamic 
extension without recompilation</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Possible to add new functions and procedures but requires 
recompilation</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="strategy" title="Strategy">
+         <desc>Project's strategy</desc>
+         <element name="license" title="License">
+            <desc>License, only if user wants to become owner of code</desc>
+            <element name="permissiveness" title="Permissiveness">
+               <desc0>Very strict license, like GPL</desc0>
+               <desc1>Moderate permissive license located between both 
extremes (GPL and BSD) dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, 
company, ...) or their activities</desc1>
+               <desc2>Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses</desc2>
+               <score>0</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="protectionagainstproprietaryforks" 
title="Protection against proprietary forks">
+               <desc0>Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses</desc0>
+               <desc1>Moderate permissive license located between both 
extremes (GPL and BSD), dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, 
company, ...) or their activies</desc1>
+               <desc2>Very strict license, like GPL</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="copyrightowners" title="Copyright owners">
+            <desc0>Rights held by a few individuals or entities, making it 
easier to change the license</desc0>
+            <desc1>Rights held by numerous individuals owning the code in a 
homogeneous way, making relicense very difficult</desc1>
+            <desc2>Rights held by a legal entity in whom the community trusts 
(e.g: FSF or ASF)</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment>Most part of source code is owned by MySQL AB. The InnoDB 
transactionnal storage engine is owned by Oracle.</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="modificationofsourcecode" title="Modification of 
source code">
+            <desc0>No pratical way to propose code modification</desc0>
+            <desc1>Tools provided to access and modify code (like CVS or SVN) 
but not really used to develop the software</desc1>
+            <desc2>The code modification process is well defined, exposed and 
respected, based on roles assignment</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Source code available but no development guide or 
architecture document</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="roadmap" title="Roadmap">
+            <desc0>No published roadmap</desc0>
+            <desc1>Existing roadmap without planning</desc1>
+            <desc2>Versionned roadmap, with planning and measure of 
delays</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Features and bugs to fix are detailed. Not sure about 
release dates specially after Oracle offer to buy Sun</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sponsor" title="Sponsor">
+            <desc0>Software has no sponsor, the core team is not paid</desc0>
+            <desc1>Software has an unique sponsor who might determine its 
strategy</desc1>
+            <desc2>Software is sponsored by industry</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Strong dependance from MySQL AB.</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="strategicalindependence" title="Strategical 
independence">
+            <desc0>No detectable strategy or strong dependency on one unique 
actor (person, company, sponsor)</desc0>
+            <desc1>Strategical vision shared with several other free and open 
source projects but without strong commitment from copyrights owners</desc1>
+            <desc2>Strong independence of the code team, legal entity holding 
rights, strong involvement in the standardization process</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment>Strong dependance from MySQL AB</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+   <section name="rdbmsfeatures" title="RDBMS features">
+      <desc>Standard RDBMS features</desc>
+      <element name="sqlcompliance" title="SQL compliance">
+         <desc>Compliance levels with SQL standards</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="sql92" title="SQL-92 compliance">
+            <desc0>Limited to Entry-level only</desc0>
+            <desc1>Transitional or Intermediate support levels</desc1>
+            <desc2>Full support level</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment>MySQL continues to work toward compliance with the SQL 
standard, but without sacrificing speed or reliability. </comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sql99" title="SQL-99 compliance">
+            <desc0>Limited to Core level only</desc0>
+            <desc1>Some optional features are implemented and compliant</desc1>
+            <desc2>Most of options in packages (Framework, Foundation, Call 
Level Interface, Persistent Stored Modules, and Host Language Bindings) are 
implemented</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment>MySQL continues to work toward compliance with the SQL 
standard, but without sacrificing speed or reliability. </comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sql2003" title="SQL:2003 compliance">
+            <desc0>Features implemented far from SQL:2003 core 
compliance</desc0>
+            <desc1>Most of SQL:2003 core features are implemented and 
compliant</desc1>
+            <desc2>SQL:2003 core compliant and most of options in packages 
(SQL/Framework, SQL/Foundation, SQL/CLI, SQL/PSM, SQL/MED, SQL/OLB, 
SQL/Schemata, SQL/JRT, SQL/XML) are implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="classicsqlfeatures" title="Classic SQL features">
+         <desc>Classic SQL features</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="tableconstraints" title="Table constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Using STRICT_TRANS_TABLES
+</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="namedconstraints" title="Named constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="columnconstraints" title="Column constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Using STRICT_TRANS_TABLES</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="nullconstraints" title="NULL constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="columndefaultvalues" title="Column's default values">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="functionsdefaultvalues" title="Functions for default 
values">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="foreignkeys" title="Foreign keys support">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Only on InnoDB tables</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="fkupdates" title="Foreign key updates">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="security" title="Security">
+         <desc>Security features</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="accesscontrol" title="Access control levels">
+            <desc>Levels of access control supported (usaername, table, base, 
etc...)</desc>
+            <comment>username, table, base and client's hostname. </comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="authenticationmethods" title="Authentication methods">
+            <desc>Authentication methods supported</desc>
+            <comment>SHA1. Does not support PAM or LDAP.</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sslsupport" title="SSL support">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="transactions" title="Transactions">
+         <desc>Transactional aspects</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="transactionalengine" title="Transactional engine">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Only with InnoDB tables</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="transactionmodes" title="Transactional modes">
+            <desc>Transactional modes (or isolation level) supported</desc>
+            <comment>READ-UNCOMMITTED, READ-COMMITTED, REPEATABLE-READ, 
SERIALIZABLE</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="locking" title="Locking granularity">
+            <desc0>Table locks only</desc0>
+            <desc1>Pages locks</desc1>
+            <desc2>Row locks</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Table locks on MyISAM tables, row lock on InnoDB 
tables</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="xacompliance" title="XA compliance">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="othersqlfeatures" title="Other SQL features">
+         <desc>Other SQL features</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="views" title="Views">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="storedprocedures" title="Stored procedures">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="triggers" title="Triggers">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="schemas" title="Schemas">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment>schema=database</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="subselects" title="Subselects">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="tablespaces" title="Tablespaces">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="unicode" title="UNICODE">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+   <section name="advancedfeatures" title="Advanced features">
+      <desc>Advanced features</desc>
+      <element name="proginterfaces" title="Programming interfaces">
+         <desc>Existing interfaces available from  external programs</desc>
+         <comment>ODBC, JDBC, C/C++, .NET/Mono, ADO.Net, OLEDB, Delphi, Perl, 
Python, PHP, Embedded (C precompiler), Embeded in Java (Connector/MXJ). MySQL 
can also be embeded as a library.</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="clustering" title="Clustering">
+         <desc0>No clustering capacities</desc0>
+         <desc1>Active/Passive clustering possible</desc1>
+         <desc2>Active/Active clustering possible</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>MySQL Cluster</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="replication" title="Replication">
+         <desc0>No replication features</desc0>
+         <desc1>Master/Slave replication</desc1>
+         <desc2>Mutli-master replication</desc2>
+         <score>1</score>
+         <comment></comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="olap" title="OLAP">
+         <desc0>Not supported</desc0>
+         <desc1>Partially supported</desc1>
+         <desc2>Fully supported</desc2>
+         <score>1</score>
+         <comment>Using Pentaho Mondrian or others</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="xmlfeatures" title="XML features">
+         <desc0>No XML features</desc0>
+         <desc1>Very few XML features</desc1>
+         <desc2>XML data is deeply integrated in the system</desc2>
+         <score>0</score>
+         <comment>Included in the roadmap</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="gis" title="GIS features">
+         <desc0>No spatial features</desc0>
+         <desc1>Few and limited spatial features</desc1>
+         <desc2>Full OpenGIS compliance</desc2>
+         <score>1</score>
+         <comment>MBR mostly and spatial indexes only work under MyISAM. 
Limited spatial functions. Some commercial (MapDotNet, Manifold.net), Open 
source GIS tools gaining steam but still more behind PostGIS</comment>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+   <section name="rdbmstools" title="Tools">
+      <desc>Existing tools around the RDBMS</desc>
+      <element name="admintools" title="Administration tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>MySQL Administrator (desktop client), phpMyAdmin (web 
client). Proprietary tools like MySQLFront or Navicat also exist.</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="querytools" title="Query tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>MySQL Query (desktop client), phpMyAdmin (web 
client)</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="migrationtools" title="Migration tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>MySQL Migration Suite</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="optimizetools" title="Optimization tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>1</score>
+         <comment>The EXPLAIN function is limited. Via Enterprise Manager you 
can run Query Analyzer on a non-production environment</comment>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+</document>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<document>
+   <header>
+      <authors>
+         <author>
+            <name>Carlos Augusto</name>
+            <email>address@hidden</email>
+         </author>
+      </authors>
+      <dates>
+         <creation>20051025</creation>
+         <validation></validation>
+      </dates>
+      <language>en</language>
+      <appname>PostgreSQL</appname>
+      <release>8.4</release>
+      <licenseid>33</licenseid>
+      <licensedesc>BSD</licensedesc>
+      <url>http://www.postgresql.org</url>
+      <desc>Object-Relational Database Management System</desc>
+      <demourl>Not applicable</demourl>
+      <qsosformat>1.7</qsosformat>
+      <qsosappfamily>RDBMS</qsosappfamily>
+      <qsosappname>postgresql</qsosappname>
+      <qsosspecificformat></qsosspecificformat>
+   </header>
+   <section name="generic" title="Generic section">
+      <desc>Generic criteria from QSOS version 1.6</desc>
+      <element name="intrinsicdurability" title="Intrinsic durability">
+         <desc>Intrinsic durability</desc>
+         <element name="maturity" title="Maturity">
+            <desc>Maturity</desc>
+            <element name="age" title="Age">
+               <desc0>less than 3 months</desc0>
+               <desc1>if between 3 months and 3 years</desc1>
+               <desc2>after 3 years</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>PostgreSQL evolved from the Ingres project at 
University of California, Berkeley. In 1994, Berkeley released project Postgres 
under BSD license. Berkeley graduate students Andrew Yu and Jolly Chen replaced 
the Ingres-based QUEL query language interpreter with one for the SQL query 
language, creating Postgres95. The code was released on the web.
+
+In 1996, the project was renamed to PostgreSQL to reflect its support for SQL. 
The first PostgreSQL release formed version 6.0 in January 1997.
+
+In mid-2005 EnterpriseDB announced plans to make proprietary products based on 
PostgreSQL with focus on niche markets. EnterpriseDB added functionality to 
allow applications written to work with Oracle to be more readily run with 
PostgreSQL.
+
+In August 2007, EnterpriseDB announced the Postgres Resource Center and 
EnterpriseDB Postgres, designed to be a fully configured distribution of 
PostgreSQL including many contrib modules and add-on components. EnterpriseDB 
Postgres was renamed to Postgres Plus in March 2008. Postgres Plus is available 
in two versions: Postgres Plus Standard Server which has all the features of 
PostgreSQL plus additional QA testing, integrated components, tuning and 
one-click install, and Postgres Plus Advanced Server which has all the features 
of Postgres Standard Server plus Oracle compatibility, scalability features, 
and DBA and developer tools. Both versions are available for download and are 
fully supported.
+
+In August 2009, EnterpriseDB announced that Red Hat made a financial 
investment in EnterpriseDB as part of a partnership aimed at increasing 
enterprise adoption of open source IT infrastructure. With the new partnership, 
EnterpriseDB and Red Hat plan to promote open source infrastructure solutions 
that emphasize the advantages of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss and 
Postgres Plus to deliver lower total-cost-of-ownership. 
+</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="stability" title="Stability">
+               <desc0>Unstable software with numerous releases or patches 
generating side effects</desc0>
+               <desc1>Stabilized production release existing but old. 
Difficulties to stabilize developpement releases</desc1>
+               <desc2>Stabilized software. Releases provide bug fixes 
corrections but mainly new functionalities</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>8.5 is being worked on. A tentative schedule for this 
version has a release in the first quarter of 2010.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="historyknowproblems" title="History">
+               <desc0>Software knows several problems which can be 
prohibitive</desc0>
+               <desc1>No know major problem or crisis</desc1>
+               <desc2>History of good management of crisis situations</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>PostgreSQL is generally considered by DBA as the most 
advanced open source RDBMS</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="forkprobability" title="Fork">
+               <desc0>Software is very likely to be forked in the 
future</desc0>
+               <desc1>Software comes from a fork but has very few chances of 
being forked in the future</desc1>
+               <desc2>Software has very little chance of being forked. It does 
not come from a fork either</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>The BSD license theorically allows proprietary forks, 
however the large community existing around PostgreSQL reduces this risk. Plus 
Advanced Server provided by EnterpriseDB is an example. 
+
+Another example is Yahoo! Everest, a multi-petabyte private database.</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="adoption" title="Adoption">
+            <desc>Adoption by community and industry</desc>
+            <element name="popularity" title="Popularity">
+               <desc0>Very few users identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Detectable use on Internet</desc1>
+               <desc2>Numerous users, numerous references</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>A lot of customers are using PostgreSQL today. 
+
+PostgreSQL was presented as one of the Enterprise Ready Open Source Databases 
options on Forrester Wave Q2 2009 database report.
+
+More customer stories on: 
+http://www.postgresql.org/about/users and 
http://www.enterprisedb.com/customers.do#ui-tabs-57
+</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="references" title="References">
+               <desc0>None</desc0>
+               <desc1>Few refences, non critical usages</desc1>
+               <desc2>Often implemented for critical applications</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>Numerous references
+
+More customer stories on: 
+http://www.postgresql.org/about/users and 
http://www.enterprisedb.com/customers.do#ui-tabs-57
+</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="contributingcommunity" title="Contributing 
Community">
+               <desc0>No community or without real activity (forum, mailing 
list, ...)</desc0>
+               <desc1>Existing community with a notable activity</desc1>
+               <desc2>Strong community: big activity on forums, numerous 
contributors and advocates</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>More than 200 worldwide contributors</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="books" title="books">
+               <desc0>No book about the software</desc0>
+               <desc1>Less than 5 books about the software are 
available</desc1>
+               <desc2>More than 5 books about software are available, in 
several languages</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Several books related to PostgreSQL, in several 
languages.</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="developmentleadership" title="Development leadership">
+            <desc>Organisation and leadership of developments</desc>
+            <element name="leadingteam" title="Leading team">
+               <desc0>1 to 2 individuals involved, not clearly 
identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Between 2 and 5 independent people</desc1>
+               <desc2>More than 5 people</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>The 7 members of the leading team are known and 
respected.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="managementstyle" title="Management style">
+               <desc0>Complete dictatorship</desc0>
+               <desc1>Enlightened despotism</desc1>
+               <desc2>Council of architects with identified leader (e.g: 
KDE)</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>Team of 7 leaders which decide dates and strategy 
based on members opinions</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="activity" title="Activity">
+            <desc>Activity of the project and around the software</desc>
+            <element name="developersidentificationturnover" 
title="Developers, identification, turnover">
+               <desc0>Less than 3 developers, not clearly identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Between 4 and 7 developers, or more unidentified 
developers with important turnover</desc1>
+               <desc2>More than 7 developers, very stable team</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>More than 250 developpers. Real open source project: 
few have write access to the code repository however everybody can submit a 
patch.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="activityonbugs" title="Activity on bugs">
+               <desc0>Slow reactivity in forum or on mailing list, or nothing 
regarding bug fixes in releases note</desc0>
+               <desc1>Detectable activity but without process clearly exposed, 
loing reaction/resolution time</desc1>
+               <desc2>Strong reactivity based on roles and tasks 
assignment</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>No bug tracking tool and thus no global view and 
statictics. Everything passes via the mailing list but the project has recently 
been adding some infrastructure to address this area. You can check the status 
of submitted patches at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information 
and at CommitFest 
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="activityonfunctionalities" title="Activity on 
functionalities">
+               <desc0>No or few new functionalities</desc0>
+               <desc1>Evolution of the product driven by the core team or by 
user's request without any clearly explained process</desc1>
+               <desc2>Tool(s) to manage feature requests, strong interaction 
with roadmap</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>No features request tool and thus no global view and 
statictics. Everything passes via the mailing list. Lately usage of CommitFest 
improved and allowed some visibility.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="activityonreleases" title="Activity on releases">
+               <desc0>Very weak activity on both production and development 
releases</desc0>
+               <desc1>Activity on production and developmenet releases. 
Frequent minor releases (bug fixes)</desc1>
+               <desc2>Important activity with frequent minor releases (bugs 
fixes) and planned major releases relating to the roadmap forcast</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Regular releases, almost always including new major 
features</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="industrializedsolution" title="Industrialized solution">
+         <desc>Industrialization level of the project</desc>
+         <element name="independenceofdevelopments" title="Independence of 
developments">
+            <desc0>Developments realized at 100% by employees of a single 
company</desc0>
+            <desc1>60% maximum</desc1>
+            <desc2>20% maximum</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Project based on volonteers work only</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="services" title="Services">
+            <desc>Services offering</desc>
+            <element name="training" title="Training">
+               <desc0>No offer of training identified</desc0>
+               <desc1>Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one 
language or is provided by a single contractor</desc1>
+               <desc2>Rich offers provided by several contractors, in serveral 
languages and split into modules of gradual levels</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="support" title="Support">
+               <desc0>No offer of support except via public forums and mailing 
lists</desc0>
+               <desc1>Offer exists but is provided by a single contractor 
without strong commitment quality of services</desc1>
+               <desc2>Multiple service providers with strong commitment (e.g: 
guaranteed resolution time)</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Many offers references on the project's website:  
+http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support or on 
http://www.opensourcexperts.com/Index/index_html/PostgreSQL or
+http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/support/overview.do</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="consulting" title="Consulting">
+               <desc0>No offer of consulting service</desc0>
+               <desc1>Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one 
language or is provided by a single contractor</desc1>
+               <desc2>Consulting services provided by different contractors in 
serveral languages</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Serveral offers exist like Persuasive Postgres 
(http://www.pervasive-postgres.com) or EnterpriseDB 
(http://www.enterprisedb.com)</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="documentation" title="Documentation">
+            <desc0>No user documentation</desc0>
+            <desc1>Documentation exists but shifted in time, is restricted to 
one language or is poorly detailed</desc1>
+            <desc2>Documentation always up to date, translated and possibly 
adapted to different target readers (end user, sysadmin, manager, ...)</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Official english documentation is freely available in 
SGML, PDF or HTML formats. 
+
+Numerous technical documents are also available (tutorials, howtos,  
installation and migration guides). 
+
+French and Japanese translation also available. Other languages on 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Main_Page</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="qualityassurance" title="Quality Assurance">
+            <desc>Quality assurance process</desc>
+            <element name="quality" title="Quality Assurance">
+               <desc0>No QA process</desc0>
+               <desc1>Identifies QA process but not much formalized and with 
no tool</desc1>
+               <desc2>Automatic testing process included in code's life-cycle 
with publication of results</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>No clearly defined process. Code verification scripts 
are used before each release. There is a build farm where one can publish build 
results (http://www.pgbuildfarm.org).
+
+PostgreSQL Plus provided by EnterpriseDB goes thru a formal QA cycle.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="tools" title="Tools">
+               <desc0>No bug or feature request management tool</desc0>
+               <desc1>Standard tools provided (for instance by a hosting 
forge) but poorly used</desc1>
+               <desc2>Very active use of tools for roles/tasks allocation and 
progress monitoring</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>No central tool available. A test suite is provided 
(make check). 
+
+EnterpriseDB is an exception with PostgreSQL Plus.</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="packaging" title="Packaging">
+         <desc>Packaging for various operating systems</desc>
+         <element name="packagingbsd" title="BSD">
+            <desc>BSD</desc>
+            <element name="packagingfreebsd" title="FreeBSD">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for FreeBSD</desc0>
+               <desc1>A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't 
have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A official port exists in FreeBSD</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingmacosx" title="Mac OS X">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Mac OS X</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>A one click installer is available for for Mac OS X 
10.4 and above on Intel and PPC and includes PostgreSQL, pgAdmin, PL/Java and 
the PL/pgSQL debugger plugin.The one click installer is maintained by Dave Page 
at EnterpriseDB.
+
+PostgreSQL packages are also available for Mac OS X from the Fink 
Project.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingnet" title="NetBSD">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for NetBSD</desc0>
+               <desc1>A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't 
have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A official port exists in NetBSD</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingopen" title="OpenBSD">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for OpenBSD</desc0>
+               <desc1>A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't 
have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A official port exists in OpenBSD</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packaginglinux" title="Linux">
+            <desc>Linux</desc>
+            <element name="packagingdebian" title="Debian">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Debian</desc0>
+               <desc1>A Debian package exists but it has important issues or 
it doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>1</score>
+               <comment>Debian users may install PostgreSQL using the apt 
utility. A list of PostgreSQL Debian packages is available from the package 
search tool. The PostgreSQL packages for Debian are maintained by Martin 
Pitt.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingmandriva" title="Mandriva">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Mandriva</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingredhat" title="Red Hat">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Red Hat/Fedora</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Project provides RPM for Red Hat Entreprise Linux. 
EnterpriseDB also supports it.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingsuse" title="SuSE">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for SuSE</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Project provides package for SuSE. EnterpriseDB also 
supports it.</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packagingsource" title="Source">
+            <desc0>Software can't be installed from source without lot of 
work</desc0>
+            <desc1>Installation from source is limited and depends on very 
strict conditions (OS, arch, lib, ...)</desc1>
+            <desc2>Installation from source is easy</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Installation from source  is well documented</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packagingunix" title="Unix">
+            <desc>Unix</desc>
+            <element name="packagingaix" title="AIX">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for AIX</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A stable package is provided for AIX</desc2>
+               <score>0</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packaginghpux" title="HP-UX">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for HP-UX</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
+               <desc2>A stable package is provided for HP-UX</desc2>
+               <score>0</score>
+               <comment>You need to build from sources.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="packagingsolaris" title="Solaris">
+               <desc0>The software is not packaged for Solaris</desc0>
+               <desc1>A package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support (e.g: SunFreeware.com )</desc1>
+               <desc2>The software is supported by Sun for Solaris</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>Sun fully supports PostgreSQL on Solaris.</comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="packagingwindows" title="Windows">
+            <desc0>The project can't be installed on Windows</desc0>
+            <desc1>A package exists but it is limited or has important issues 
or just cover some specific Windows release (e.g: Windows 2000 and Windows 
XP)</desc1>
+            <desc2>Windows is full supported and a package is provided</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>An installer is provided</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="exploitability" title="Exploitability">
+         <desc>Exploitability level</desc>
+         <element name="easeofuseergonomics" title="Ease of use, ergonomics">
+            <desc0>Difficult to use, requires an in depth knowledge of the 
software functionality</desc0>
+            <desc1>Austere and very technical ergonomics</desc1>
+            <desc2>GUI including help functions and elaborated 
ergonomics</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Advanced installation requires DBA skills. Graphical 
tools are user-friendly (specially those provided by Red Hat).</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="administrationmonitoring" title="Administration / 
Monitoring">
+            <desc0>No administrative or monitoring functionalities</desc0>
+            <desc1>Existing, functionalities but uncomplete and or need 
improvement</desc1>
+            <desc2>Complete and easy-to-use administration and monitoring 
functionalities. Possible integration with external tools (e.g: SNMP, syslog, 
...)</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Administration console (PgAdmin III) is intuitive and can 
manage several servers, but doesn't include monitoring features. PostgreSQL 
Plus Advanced Server has additional monitoring capabilities.</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="technicaladaptability" title="Technical adaptability">
+         <desc>Technical adaptability</desc>
+         <element name="modularity" title="Modularity">
+            <desc0>Monolithic software</desc0>
+            <desc1>Presence of hight level modules allowing a first level of 
software adaptation</desc1>
+            <desc2>Modular conception, allowing easy adaptation of the 
software by selecting or creating modules</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="codemodification" title="Code modification">
+            <desc0>Everything by hand</desc0>
+            <desc1>Recompilation possible but complex without any tools or 
documentation</desc1>
+            <desc2>Recompilation with tools (e.g: make, ANT, ...) and 
documentation provided</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Relatively complex C code source</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="codeextension" title="Code extension">
+            <desc0>Any modification requires code recompilation</desc0>
+            <desc1>Architecture designed for static extension but requires 
recompilation</desc1>
+            <desc2>Principle of plugin, architecture designed for dynamic 
extension without recompilation</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Possibility to add new functions, data types, operators, 
aggregators as shared libraries that can be dynamiocally loaded by 
PostgreSQL.</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="strategy" title="Strategy">
+         <desc>Project's strategy</desc>
+         <element name="license" title="License">
+            <desc>License, only if user wants to become owner of code</desc>
+            <element name="permissiveness" title="Permissiveness">
+               <desc0>Very strict license, like GPL</desc0>
+               <desc1>Moderate permissive license located between both 
extremes (GPL and BSD) dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, 
company, ...) or their activities</desc1>
+               <desc2>Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses</desc2>
+               <score>2</score>
+               <comment>PostgreSQL has a simple licensing scheme. It is 
released under the Berkley License, which allows for any use as long as a copy 
of the Berkley License is included with it. This means that you can release a 
commercial product that uses PostgreSQL or is a derivative of PostgreSQL 
without including source code.</comment>
+            </element>
+            <element name="protectionagainstproprietaryforks" 
title="Protection against proprietary forks">
+               <desc0>Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses</desc0>
+               <desc1>Moderate permissive license located between both 
extremes (GPL and BSD), dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, 
company, ...) or their activies</desc1>
+               <desc2>Very strict license, like GPL</desc2>
+               <score>0</score>
+               <comment></comment>
+            </element>
+         </element>
+         <element name="copyrightowners" title="Copyright owners">
+            <desc0>Rights held by a few individuals or entities, making it 
easier to change the license</desc0>
+            <desc1>Rights held by numerous individuals owning the code in a 
homogeneous way, making relicense very difficult</desc1>
+            <desc2>Rights held by a legal entity in whom the community trusts 
(e.g: FSF or ASF)</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="modificationofsourcecode" title="Modification of 
source code">
+            <desc0>No pratical way to propose code modification</desc0>
+            <desc1>Tools provided to access and modify code (like CVS or SVN) 
but not really used to develop the software</desc1>
+            <desc2>The code modification process is well defined, exposed and 
respected, based on roles assignment</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Source code available but no development guide or 
architecture document</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="roadmap" title="Roadmap">
+            <desc0>No published roadmap</desc0>
+            <desc1>Existing roadmap without planning</desc1>
+            <desc2>Versionned roadmap, with planning and measure of 
delays</desc2>
+            <score>0</score>
+            <comment>No roadmap published, just a TODO list.</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sponsor" title="Sponsor">
+            <desc0>Software has no sponsor, the core team is not paid</desc0>
+            <desc1>Software has an unique sponsor who might determine its 
strategy</desc1>
+            <desc2>Software is sponsored by industry</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Example: EnterpriseDB, Red Hat, NTT Group, Fujitsu, HP, 
Open Technology Group, Skype and others</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="strategicalindependence" title="Strategical 
independence">
+            <desc0>No detectable strategy or strong dependency on one unique 
actor (person, company, sponsor)</desc0>
+            <desc1>Strategical vision shared with several other free and open 
source projects but without strong commitment from copyrights owners</desc1>
+            <desc2>Strong independence of the code team, legal entity holding 
rights, strong involvement in the standardization process</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Project team is really independent. Its strategy is to 
stick as possible to the standards.</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+   <section name="rdbmsfeatures" title="RDBMS features">
+      <desc>Standard RDBMS features</desc>
+      <element name="sqlcompliance" title="SQL compliance">
+         <desc>Compliance levels with SQL standards</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="sql92" title="SQL-92 compliance">
+            <desc0>Limited to Entry-level only</desc0>
+            <desc1>Transitional or Intermediate support levels</desc1>
+            <desc2>Full support level</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sql99" title="SQL-99 compliance">
+            <desc0>Limited to Core level only</desc0>
+            <desc1>Some optional features are implemented and compliant</desc1>
+            <desc2>Most of options in packages (Framework, Foundation, Call 
Level Interface, Persistent Stored Modules, and Host Language Bindings) are 
implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>OO concepts are also implemented (heritance between 
tables, ...)</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sql2003" title="SQL:2003 compliance">
+            <desc0>Features implemented far from SQL:2003 core 
compliance</desc0>
+            <desc1>Most of SQL:2003 core features are implemented and 
compliant</desc1>
+            <desc2>SQL:2003 core compliant and most of options in packages 
(SQL/Framework, SQL/Foundation, SQL/CLI, SQL/PSM, SQL/MED, SQL/OLB, 
SQL/Schemata, SQL/JRT, SQL/XML) are implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>PostgreSQL supports most of the major features of 
SQL:2003. Out of 164 mandatory features required for full Core conformance, 
PostgreSQL conforms to at least 150.
+
+For more information: 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/features-sql-standard.html</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="classicsqlfeatures" title="Classic SQL features">
+         <desc>Classic SQL features</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="tableconstraints" title="Table constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="namedconstraints" title="Named constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="columnconstraints" title="Column constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="nullconstraints" title="NULL constraints">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="columndefaultvalues" title="Column's default values">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="functionsdefaultvalues" title="Functions for default 
values">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="foreignkeys" title="Foreign keys support">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="fkupdates" title="Foreign key updates">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment>Using ON DELETE/ON UPDATE CASCADE clause</comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="security" title="Security">
+         <desc>Security features</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="accesscontrol" title="Access control levels">
+            <desc>Levels of access control supported (usaername, table, base, 
etc...)</desc>
+            <comment>username, kerberos (4 and 5), ident, PAM, LDAP</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="authenticationmethods" title="Authentication methods">
+            <desc>Authentication methods supported</desc>
+            <comment>md5, crypt, password and kerberos</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="sslsupport" title="SSL support">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="transactions" title="Transactions">
+         <desc>Transactional aspects</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="transactionalengine" title="Transactional engine">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="transactionmodes" title="Transactional modes">
+            <desc>Transactional modes (or isolation level) supported</desc>
+            <comment>READ-COMMITTED, SERIALIZABLE. In PostgreSQL, you can 
request any of the four standard transaction isolation levels. But internally, 
there are only two distinct isolation levels, which correspond to the levels 
Read Committed and Serializable. When you select the level Read Uncommitted you 
really get Read Committed, and when you select Repeatable Read you really get 
Serializable, so the actual isolation level might be stricter than what you 
select. This is permitted by the SQL standard: the four isolation levels only 
define which phenomena must not happen, they do not define which phenomena must 
happen. The reason that PostgreSQL only provides two isolation levels is that 
this is the only sensible way to map the standard isolation levels to the 
multiversion concurrency control architecture.</comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="locking" title="Locking granularity">
+            <desc0>Table locks only</desc0>
+            <desc1>Pages locks</desc1>
+            <desc2>Row locks</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="xacompliance" title="XA compliance">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>1</score>
+            <comment>Yes, starting with the 8.1dev-403 driver. However, 
transaction interleaving is not supported. </comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+      <element name="othersqlfeatures" title="Other SQL features">
+         <desc>Other SQL features</desc>
+         <comment></comment>
+         <element name="views" title="Views">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="storedprocedures" title="Stored procedures">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="triggers" title="Triggers">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="schemas" title="Schemas">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="subselects" title="Subselects">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="tablespaces" title="Tablespaces">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+         <element name="unicode" title="UNICODE">
+            <desc0>Not implemented</desc0>
+            <desc1>Partially implemented</desc1>
+            <desc2>Fully implemented</desc2>
+            <score>2</score>
+            <comment></comment>
+         </element>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+   <section name="advancedfeatures" title="Advanced features">
+      <desc>Advanced features</desc>
+      <element name="proginterfaces" title="Programming interfaces">
+         <desc>Existing interfaces available from  external programs</desc>
+         <comment>ODBC, JDBC, C/C++, Embeded SQL (dans du C), Tcl/Tk, Perl, 
Python, PHP .</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="clustering" title="Clustering">
+         <desc0>No clustering capacities</desc0>
+         <desc1>Active/Passive clustering possible</desc1>
+         <desc2>Active/Active clustering possible</desc2>
+         <score>1</score>
+         <comment></comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="replication" title="Replication">
+         <desc0>No replication features</desc0>
+         <desc1>Master/Slave replication</desc1>
+         <desc2>Mutli-master replication</desc2>
+         <score>1</score>
+         <comment>Via third party products (Slony or eRServer)</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="olap" title="OLAP">
+         <desc0>Not supported</desc0>
+         <desc1>Partially supported</desc1>
+         <desc2>Fully supported</desc2>
+         <score>0</score>
+         <comment>Third party options available but not integrated. Example: 
+Cybertec - http://www.postgresql.at/english/start_e.html</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="xmlfeatures" title="XML features">
+         <desc0>No XML features</desc0>
+         <desc1>Very few XML features</desc1>
+         <desc2>XML data is deeply integrated in the system</desc2>
+         <score>1</score>
+         <comment>The xml data type can be used to store XML data (well-formed 
"documents"). Its advantage over storing XML data in a text field is that it 
checks the input values for well-formedness, and there are support functions to 
perform type-safe operations on it. Use of this data type requires the 
installation to have been built with configure --with-libxml.
+
+Since there are no comparison operators for the xml data type, it is not 
possible to create an index directly on a column of this type. If speedy 
searches in XML data are desired, possible workarounds include casting the 
expression to a character string type and indexing that, or indexing an XPath 
expression. Of course, the actual query would have to be adjusted to search by 
the indexed expression.
+
+The text-search functionality in PostgreSQL can also be used to speed up 
full-document searches of XML data. The necessary preprocessing support is, 
however, not yet available in the PostgreSQL distribution. 
+</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="gis" title="GIS features">
+         <desc0>No spatial features</desc0>
+         <desc1>Few and limited spatial features</desc1>
+         <desc2>Full OpenGIS compliance</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>PostGIS 1.1 and higher is OpenGIS Compliant</comment>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+   <section name="rdbmstools" title="Tools">
+      <desc>Existing tools around the RDBMS</desc>
+      <element name="admintools" title="Administration tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>PGAdmin III, PhpPgAdmin (Web client), RedHat Administrator 
and Control Center</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="querytools" title="Query tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>PGAdmin III, PhpPgAdmin (Web client)</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="migrationtools" title="Migration tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>EnterpriseDB has a migration tool if buying PostgreSQL Plus 
Advanced. Other tools are available like ESF Data Migration tool, SwisSQL, EMS 
SQL Manager, etc.</comment>
+      </element>
+      <element name="optimizetools" title="Optimization tools">
+         <desc0>No tool available</desc0>
+         <desc1>Tool(s) available but limited (features or plateforms)</desc1>
+         <desc2>Available tool(s) is(are) complete and easily integrable 
(scripts, API, ...)</desc2>
+         <score>2</score>
+         <comment>EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE functions, EMS Postgres Manager, 
EnterpriseDB Postgres Studio, etc.</comment>
+      </element>
+   </section>
+</document>
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