From owner-freebsd-database Sun Dec 26 4:46:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (carlton.innotts.co.uk [212.56.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71EC14DC4 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 04:46:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robmel@nadt.org.uk) Received: from muffin.highwire.local (pool-1-p9.innotts.co.uk [212.56.33.9]) by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03519 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:45:59 GMT Received: from [172.16.17.20] (robsmac.highwire.local [172.16.17.20]) by muffin.highwire.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01264; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:42:46 GMT (envelope-from robmel@nadt.org.uk) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: robmel@mailhost Message-Id: Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:42:54 +0000 To: Gabor Esperon , freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: What database i can use? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 9:05 am -0800 24/12/99, Gabor Esperon wrote: >I need a good database server in my network, under >FreeBSD 3.3 > >What is recommended: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or >another? Previous responses by others are reasonable, although MySQL is better than Berend de Boer said for quick and effective apps using many accesses - few (and not too complex) updates. Another alternative is Interbase 4 in the ports collection. This is a back version of Interbase (which is a commercial database) but works very well & is free. Other native FreeBSD SQL databases which you pay for are Yard (http://www.yard.de/) and Solid (http://www.solidtech.com/) both of which have strengths and weaknesses but are full SQL implementations. You can also get trial versions of them. Plenty to play with here :) Regards Robin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Service Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk Pages: http://www.nadt.org.uk/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message