From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 25 09:28:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21515 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:28:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21397 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.105] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 0zBLva-0003Cg-00; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:26:40 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35E33DA4.D7AC3FFA@post1.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:27:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella To: Manik Surtani Subject: RE: FreeBSD Newbie : Best database for a web app'n? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use mysql. It's one of the ones that is in the ports collection and is very fast and stable. Full featured as well. See http://mysql.he.net for more details. Patrick On 25-Aug-98 Manik Surtani wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend the best database to use (both commercial and > freeware) for a rather intensive e-commerce based web app? > > The database will have to support perhaps up to 20 concurrent users, and > will have to keep track of more than 10,000 records. Hence, performance > is an issue. > > Another issue is availability of ODBC drivers and APIs, as my web > programs will have to interface with this database. > > As this is my first time *attempting* to set up a freeBSD system, I am > quite in the dark as to what's available, etc. Help will be greatly > appreciated .... > > > Thanks in advance, > > Manik > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message