Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:17:38 -0400 From: Lance M.Westerhoff <lmw188@psu.edu> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DB2 on FreeBSD?? Message-ID: <BD790F4D-7338-11D6-B5D0-00039357F10C@psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E101B04F-7332-11D6-8626-000502EDE760@shire.net>
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On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 02:35 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 02:09 , Lance M.Westerhoff wrote: > >> So far, it seems that FreeBSD will support the QLogic 2200 >> FibreChannel cards we will be installing in the two machines. >> Further, it seems that FreeBSD will be ok with the EuroLogic, dual >> controller RAID. Obviously as long as we can recompile the code using >> g77 and gcc, any computational software will probably run without a >> hitch (and potentially better then on a Linux system). What about >> database software? As the databases grow, I expect each of them to >> encompass several TB, so I don't think MySQL will work in the long run >> (though I could be wrong). Therefore, we are looking at commercial >> database solutions. From the FreeBSD page, it seems that >> Linux-Oracle8 will run (I assume that 9 will as well??). Does anyone >> know about DB2 from IBM? Being a University, we have a much much >> better deal with IBM then with Oracle. Other ideas? Lastly, what >> sort of performance hit, if any, can we expect with using a >> Linux-native DBMS with FreeBSD's Linux compatibility libraries? >> > > Hi Lance > > For commercial DBs, I would take a VERY STRONG look at Frontbase, > <http://www.frontbase.com>; . They run natively on FreeBSD and are a > very strong database with full SQL92 compatibility. They are also very > results and performance oriented with awesome customer service. > > The US sales guy is Larry Barcot <larry@frontbase.com> . > > I have no affiliation with them nor do I get any remuneration, just a > very satisfied user. > > I've took a look at them about a year ago and I was impressed then too (they also have native support for my primary OS: Mac OS X/Darwin). I would wonder about their OO support as well. Do you know if Qt drivers exist yet for FrontBase? Our client package uses Qt, and whatever database solution we go with, we would need to be able to build a DB driver for Qt (which I haven't done anything with yet, so it may be very straight forward). -Lance _____________________ Lance M. Westerhoff PennState Chemistry Graduate Researcher & UNIX Systems Administrator - Merz Computational Biochemistry Research Group Phone: 814-863-7591 Email: lance@mac.com Web: http://merz.chem.psu.edu/~lance/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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