Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:30:20 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database recomendation pls. Message-ID: <99081121403806.05193@ehome.local.net> References: <3.0.6.32.19990811231232.008bb4b0@intranet.com.mx>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Jorge Biquez wrote: > using SQLServer or Oracle but pls think that here money is a problem. I > have been reading about MySql and I was wondering how strong it really is > in real life. Anyone is using it in busy environments? Go to http://www.slashdot.org and see MySql in real life. That's what they use for their back-end database, and they saturate a T1 and more. I'd call that a busy environment (though it does get slow once they get to that point, but that's more a problem with Apache, details upon request but Apache ain't the cat's meow for serving static data, especially for big files). > I have machines running FreeBSD, others with NT 4.0 IIS SP4 and others are > Macs running Webten and Webstar. I do not care to program on C or another > high level language if necessary. You probably want to use PHP3 then (http://www.php3.org ). You have to do this in order. First install MySQL and Apache, then they have a way to compile php3 as a dynamic module so that it can access PHP3. PHP3 + MySQL gives you much of the functionality of ASP without the expense. The only concern: PHP3 is not the world's fastest language, and MySQL is not the world's most-featured database (it *IS* blazingly fast though). Another possibility is to use Zope (http://www.zope.org), which uses Python and has "Database Adaptors". It is easier to set up a little web page that puts up a few database thingies, because you can just point and click on a web configurator, but I've had no success in figuring out how to program Python methods for Zope, so I haven't bothered trying to make real applications with it yet. Squishdot ( see http://www.technocrat.org ) is written using Zope. You may also want to dig around on the PHP3 web site, I think someone has released a Zope-like point-and-click front end for building PHP3-based applications that might be of use to you. Anyhow, good luck! -- Eric Lee Green http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com ^^^^^^^ Burdening Microsoft with SPAM! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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