From owner-freebsd-database Fri Dec 24 10:42:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.xs4all.nl (smtp3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3568E14F38 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 10:42:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: from auke.nederware.nl (nederware.nl [194.109.55.62]) by smtp3.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA03741 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 19:42:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from bmach (bmach.nederware.nl [192.168.33.3]) by auke.nederware.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA02272 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 19:16:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) From: "Berend de Boer" To: Subject: RE: What database i can use? Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 19:16:16 +0100 Message-ID: <001d01bf4e3a$f89a3a70$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-reply-to: <19991224170541.29128.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > What is recommended: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or > another? Oracle costs money, hard to setup, but most features. MySQL isn't a real RDBMS, so not an option. Leaves PostgreSQL. Stable and reasonably fast. Doesn't support full ANSI92 SQL (no JOIN statement for example). But has many other features. I would start with PostgreSQL. Groetjes, Berend. (-: