From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 13:40:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00280 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00239 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA10315; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:38:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980902153841.A10198@emsphone.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:38:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: The Hermit Hacker , David Chamberlain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Apache and databases References: <35ED92A7.2FD591D1@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "The Hermit Hacker" on Wed Sep 2 15:01:24 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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