From owner-freebsd-database Sun Dec 26 6:23:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34A9152DD for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 06:23:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-database@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA45660 for database@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:16:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-database@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for database@FreeBSD.org (database@FreeBSD.org) To: database@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:16:06 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <38662326.4A4CCD1E@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <19991224170541.29128.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com>, <001d01bf4e3a$f89a3a70$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> Subject: Re: What database i can use? Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message