Re: Please recommend me a DB!

[few snipped] John Coleman wrote >>Don't even think about non-SQL databases like Progress. Pick Progress and >> you're stuck ! No support from 3:rd party vendors etc.... > >Progress is the number 1 pick of VARS for about 5 years straight now - for >good reasons. You almost never have to drop out of the 4GL to "C" to get the >job done - I've only done it once in 4 years. Depending on your needs. Congratulations. >In UNIX, you can easily incoporate schell scripts >into you app, which basically opens up everything available in UNIX. No great news. >I've been using Progress and >Sybase both for the last few months - Progress may not be as robust a database, >but Progress is miles easier to setup, configure, and maintain. Seems to have >better performance, too, but I have no benchmarks yet. Progress is a tools company. They never had a chance as RDBMS - weak and slow design. >So... If you are a C/C++ head, and love to write "write-once, read-never" code, >Progress may not be for you. On the other hand, if you want a robust 4GL, >would like the database and the language to come the same company, want >multi-platform support (UNIX (most flavors), Windows, NT, AS/400, VMS, Novell >NLM, etc.), and want multiple database support (Progress, Oracle, Sybase, >DB2/400, C-ISAM, MS SQL Server, RMS, etc.), you should consider Progress. Yes, but buy first the 100 USD 'test drive' - and see if that style of 4GL programming could be the deliverance. -- Chris Drauch ...................................................................... . c/o DRAUCH Ges.m.b.H. Tel. 43/ 3135/46387-0 . . Gewerbestrasse 5 Fax 43/ 3135/4638728 . . A-8071 Hausmannstaetten EMail cdr@xteam.co.at . ......................................................................