From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 21 1:55:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haddock.euitt.upm.es (haddock.euitt.upm.es [138.100.52.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C753F14D61 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 01:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjlobo@euitt.upm.es) Received: from localhost (pjlobo@localhost) by haddock.euitt.upm.es (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02410; Fri, 21 May 1999 10:54:40 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:54:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Pedro J. Lobo" To: Dan Moschuk Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database holywars? In-Reply-To: <19990520144215.E94835@trinsec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > >| ¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a >| heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial >| support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it >| adds MVCC (multi-version concurrency control), which will improve a lot >| its multi-user capabilities. And, I know of some projects that are using >| it for multi-GB databases. I've been using it for or student database >| for more than two years (since version 6.0), and am quite happy with >| it. See www.postgresql.org for more information. > >If I recall correctly, isn't postgresql *based* off of the Berkeley DB >engine? No. PostgreSQL is an evolution of Prof. Stonebraker's Postgres project, which was derived from Ingres. I find it truly comparable to Oracle, Sybase, Informix, etc. It may be slower, but offers most of the functionality of the big guys. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro José Lobo Perea Tel: +34 91 336 78 19 Centro de Cálculo Fax: +34 91 331 92 29 E.U.I.T. Telecomunicación e-mail: pjlobo@euitt.upm.es Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Ctra. de Valencia, Km. 7 E-28031 Madrid - España / Spain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message