From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 20 9:51:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E414F14D27 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 09:51:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA75010; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:51:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:51:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Dan Moschuk Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database holywars? In-Reply-To: <19990520125421.A94348@trinsec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've taken up a project that will rely very heavily on remote database > access. Naturally, the choice as to which database engine to use is a > crucial one. > > I'd like to stay away from the commercial database suites (i.e. Oracle) for > the time being, however I will eventually move to it once the database grows > to over 100M records. In the meantime however, I'm debating heavily between > MySQL and Berkeley DB with a multi-threaded socket frontend. > > Suggestions and comments? What's more important, flexibility to make changes, or speed? Anything that implements sql has to be far slower, but if you make many changes, you're going to heavily regret choosing a set of C language functions as the base of your DB. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message