On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > >| ¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a >| heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial >| support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it >| adds MVCC (multi-version concurrency control), which will improve a lot >| its multi-user capabilities. And, I know of some projects that are using >| it for multi-GB databases. I've been using it for or student database >| for more than two years (since version 6.0), and am quite happy with >| it. See www.postgresql.org for more information. > >If I recall correctly, isn't postgresql *based* off of the Berkeley DB >engine?
No. PostgreSQL is an evolution of Prof. Stonebraker's Postgres project, which was derived from Ingres. I find it truly comparable to Oracle, Sybase, Informix, etc. It may be slower, but offers most of the functionality of the big guys. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro José Lobo Perea Tel: +34 91 336 78 19 Centro de Cálculo Fax: +34 91 331 92 29 E.U.I.T. Telecomunicación e-mail: pjl...@euitt.upm.es Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Ctra. de Valencia, Km. 7 E-28031 Madrid - España / Spain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
