Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:21:11 +0200 From: Stefan Schwarzer <sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DB2 on FreeBSD?? Message-ID: <3CF53837.943FEB0D@sschwarzer.net> References: <E05EFBFC-7337-11D6-B5D0-00039357F10C@psu.edu>
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Hello Lance "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). PostgreSQL provides some object relational features (see the docs on http://www.postgresql.org/) but is not really an object-oriented database. Neither is MySQL, Oracle or DB2 (AFAIK). If you want to choose from the more common database servers but also do object-oriented programming I recommend using an OO-ER wrapper framework for your programming language. In a project we use Python with PostgreSQL; there are several OO-ER mappers (though you probably will have more work with Python than with e. g. Java because of Python's dynamic "nature"). I would be interested to know what happens further. :-) Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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