Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:53:38 +0000 From: Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Patrick Kelly <pkelly@kuentos.guam.net> Cc: SRIDHAR KRISHNAN <skrishna@cisco.com>, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which SQL Database for Web Applications ? Message-ID: <l03130306b0f67e9dda14@[172.16.17.20]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980126182925.23083W-100000@shell.uniserve.com> References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.980127120326.880A-100000@saba.kuentos.guam.net>
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At 6:32 pm -0800 26/1/98, Tom wrote: >On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Patrick Kelly wrote: > >> I was using (briefly) postgreSQL, but got frustrated with the limited SQL. >> Now I'm using Solid (not free). I've committed to it (ie paid license >> fees), but havn't used it enough to really give a qualified opinion. >> >> patrick > > Solid is nice. Of the free databases, PostgreSQL probably has the least >limited SQL support though. Both mSQL and MySQL lacked all kinds of >things that PostgreSQL does. > > I belive that Solid is the only SQL database for FreeBSD that offers >logging and automatic crash recovery. Only Solid and PostgreSQL provide >support for transactions. > >Tom I've been trying another (non-free) SQL server that runs native on FreeBSD called YARD. It seems a pretty complete & robust implementation (inc logging & transactions). I've not tried linking it to web pages since I'm working on unix & windoze apps, but it definitely has a JDBC interface as well as ODBC and embedded C SQL. They're at http://www.yard.de/ & you can d/l a trial version to see if it's any good for you. I'm a little disturbed about the problems with MySQL that Mark Mayo mentioned: >... I don't like the fact that MySQL 3.21 is the recommended version, >but is still in beta and new betas come out monthly, and the last beta (as >of today 3.21.21) has several known bugs invovling fairly simple queries, >but the only way to get fixes is cut and paste patches from the mailing >list... ugh ... since we've been thinking of using it for less "critical" stuff. Do these problems lose data? Robin.
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