From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 13:17:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4696337B404 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g4TKGdU20966; Wed, 29 May 2002 16:16:40 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF53882.70209@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 16:22:26 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Lance M. Westerhoff" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DB2 on FreeBSD?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lance M. Westerhoff wrote: >> Have you considered PostgreSQL? It's another _extremely_ powerful >> open-source database. > > Agreed. A little more research may be in order here. Do you know if > either MySQL or PostgreSQL offer any Object Oriented or Object > Relational support (like Oracle)? Biological systems are inherently > object oriented and over the coming months I'll be exploring OO DBMS to > see what I can see. I have focused exclusively on RDBMS's such as MySQL > (the databases are currently fully implemented with MySQL), but OO seems > interesting (at least for certain types of applications). Personally, I'm still trying to understand the difference between "object oriented" and "object relational". PostgreSQL claims to be "object relational" and specifically states that they aren't all the way to being "object oriented" yet. MySQL doesn't seem to have much in the way of "object" features yet. Their development tradeoff seems to be focusing on speed, reliability, etc instead of "bleeding-edge" features. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message