> For a variety of reasons I want a relational database for Linux. As far
as I
> know my choices are
> MySQL (which has huge and confusing doc)
> Oracle 8i (which has a huge and confusing download)
> DB2 (which has an advertized download that I can't find)
> Postgress (which appears to have no doc whatsoever).
> What are you folks using, if anything ? What's good what's bad ?
> My needs are so modest that I might just do what I need in C and be done
with
> it, but I'd like to have a real database engine just because.
> Besides, this seems like a nice discussion topic for this group.
Really, it all depends on what you want to do with it. Each one has +'s
and -'s. First, obviously, is do you want to pay? ;-P Oracle is *GREAT*,
but using it in a production environment is *extremely* expensive. So the
pay issue decides on Oracle/DB2 vs Postgres/MySQL. Second question is, how
important is speed versus performance. These sound like the same, but
they're not. MySQL can toast Postgress at times, but doesn;t support (yet
in a standard distro) row locking, etc, very well.. MySQL I also found to
be much easier to maintain and administer then Postgress.
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