Re: help...database system
mr_nous@my-dejanews.com schrieb: > Hi, I am looking for a relational database system which will be less > expensive than Oracle,Sybase,SQL Server,btrieve etc. Can anyone give me > information regarding this? TIA Devi MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) is very fast and cheap but lacks some features like locking (although you can lock entire tables manually) and subselects. But, like I said, it is fast :) and especially well adapted for web servers & things like that... PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org) is a GPL'd database server with clients, which has most of the features commercial databases have (and even some the others don't ;)). You download the source code, compile, install and run it in half an hour... Of course it only runs on unices (and the main platform is Linux, which always is a good advice ;)). Also, you can have Informix and SyBase for free on Linux, which is free, too... and certainly a lot faster than NT (does really anyone have doubts on that ?) When you buy/download a Linux distribution like S.u.S.E. (www.suse.com) or Red Hat (www.redhat.com), PostgreSQL is included. It takes 5 seconds to install the package (I can provide you with a package of the latest PostgreSQL release, 6.4.2, btw), and there you go... btw, Ingres -> Postgres -> Postgres95 -> PostgreSQL ;) If you want more infos on Linux, MySQL or PostgreSQL, go ahead, you've got my e-mail ;^) -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\\\ <guru@linuxbe.org> _\\_v C++/UNIX Development, ATOS Payment Systems (Aachen) --------------------------------------- "God is real, unless declared integer." ---------------------------------------
Thanks...I was actually looking for something to run on NT{:)} MySQL seems OK. Thanks a lot for helping me out. Good day Devi In article <36D418B8.ADA774B8@atos-group.com>, pbleser@atos-group.com wrote: > mr_nous@my-dejanews.com schrieb: > > Hi, I am looking for a relational database system which will be less > > expensive than Oracle,Sybase,SQL Server,btrieve etc. Can anyone give me > > information regarding this? TIA Devi > > MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) is very fast and cheap but lacks some > features > like locking (although you can lock entire tables manually) and > subselects. > But, like I said, it is fast :) and especially well adapted for web > servers & things like that... > PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org) is a GPL'd database server with > clients, which has most of the features commercial databases have (and > even > some the others don't ;)). You download the source code, compile, > install > and run it in half an hour... > Of course it only runs on unices (and the main platform is Linux, which > always is a good advice ;)). Also, you can have Informix and SyBase for > free on Linux, which is free, too... and certainly a lot faster than > NT (does really anyone have doubts on that ?) > When you buy/download a Linux distribution like S.u.S.E. (www.suse.com) > or > Red Hat (www.redhat.com), PostgreSQL is included. It takes 5 seconds to > install the package (I can provide you with a package of the latest > PostgreSQL release, 6.4.2, btw), and there you go... > btw, Ingres -> Postgres -> Postgres95 -> PostgreSQL ;) > > If you want more infos on Linux, MySQL or PostgreSQL, go ahead, you've > got my e-mail ;^) > > -- > -o) Pascal Bleser > > "God is real, unless declared integer." -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own