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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:16:06 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        database@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What database i can use?
Message-ID:  <38662326.4A4CCD1E@scc.nl>
References:  <19991224170541.29128.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com>, <001d01bf4e3a$f89a3a70$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl>

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Berend de Boer wrote:
> 
> > 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.

The new Informix server (IDS.2000) for Linux seems to work fine on both
-stable and -current. You may want to check it out as well.

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Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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