From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 07:29:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27029 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA26943 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zEDsb-0002Dh-00; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:27:25 +0200 Message-ID: <19980902162725.A8500@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:27:25 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Jack Freelander , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SQL package Mail-Followup-To: Jack Freelander , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jack Freelander on Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 01:06:44PM -0400 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 at 13:06 SAT, Jack Freelander wrote: > > which of the database packages would you recommend? I'm looking for > something as close as possible to the official SQL standard, but I don't > want to sacrifice performance or stability if I don't have to. > > Is there one best overall package? Not really. If you're looking for free/open source, your primary choices are probably: MySQL - http://www.tcx.se/ MiniSQL - http://www.hughes.com.au/ PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org/ Not one of them yet cover the entire ANSI spec, but if standards compliance is a priority, PostgreSQL is probably your best bet. It's also the only one of the three completely unencumbered by a quasi-commercial licence. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message