Re: Best database for web backend on Linux?

Posted in 1998

Michael Peppler — Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:54:16 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Edwin Johnson wrote: > > I'm using Mysql and believe, as advertised, it is probably one of the > fastest. Since I'm just now getting into this, I'm not sure it will support > all of the features you desire. It _does_, however, have a great Perl > interface, with which I've written routines to access several databases I > have and it also has the PHP3 with Apache. I've written front ends similar > to the Perl, but using html format allowing users to access the database > using simple TCP/IP connections and a web browser. As I said it _is_ > extremely fast. MySQL is fast, but it doesn't have transactional integrity (as far as I know). This is a serious drawback for any serious database work... Michael -- Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc. mpeppler@mbay.net -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler Int. Sybase User Group -||- http://www.isug.com