On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:53, Joe Brown wrote: > I tried to find the list of issues, but I forget where I saw them, they > didn't look like most users would ever incur them. But nonetheless, I > didn't like 'em, probably because I'm a fan of PostgreSQL. > > Again, my past history with Interbase left a bad taste in my mouth, and > have not looked at Firebird with an openmind. > > It's probably the easiest to deploy in a multiuser environment, but > proper analysis needs to be taken into account. > > Now days, it doesn't matter which rdbms you go with there will be issues > one way or another. That which most fit's your requirements, is > probably going to be the best one for you. > > IMO, PostgreSQL is the most powerful, by far of the Open Sources, thus, > I tend to push that one. But it's not necessarily the easiest to > deploy. You need to install it under a specific user and edit a couple > of conf to get clients to be able to connect. Not the most straight > forward... But it's got object capabilities, which blow me away, and > I'd be a lier if I said I was totally familiar with them. However, some > of the more complicated select statements I've pulled off with > PostgreSQL have left me not missing Oracle... Which used to be the only > place I could pull off such selects.
Most Linux distro's have RPM's or some other means to deploy. The windows installer works well. I have no idea what is available for the MAC. Two out of three are very easy to deploy. -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
