Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:38:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, David Chamberlain <david.chamberlain@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Apache and databases Message-ID: <19980902153841.A10198@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809021454230.6273-100000@hub.org>; from "The Hermit Hacker" on Wed Sep 2 15:01:24 GMT 1998 References: <35ED92A7.2FD591D1@ibm.net> <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809021454230.6273-100000@hub.org>
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In the last episode (Sep 02), The Hermit Hacker said: > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, David Chamberlain wrote: > > OK, so back to the original question. How do I do it? > > > > I saw a product called MySQL, which looks pretty good. I can > > probably figure out how to install that and make it work from the > > instructions. > > I'm biased...MySQL has a commercial-use license, so for someone > that is worried about buying more hardware, you'll probably want to > avoid using MySQL. Check out PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org), > which falls under Berkeley license and is free for use, period. No > "unless you use it for this, or this or this"... Just to clarify. MySQL has a *commercial-distribution* license. You are only forced to buy licenses if you ship MySQL as part of a product. If you use it in-house, there are no restrictions at all (although buying email support is encouraged). PostgreSQL supports a larger subset of SQL (it has subselects and transactions), but MySQL is significantly faster than Postgres, since it doesn't have to manage transactions. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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