Cloudscape was open sourced as Derby.
I disagree that MySQL isn't enterprise-grade. However it would be true to say its BLOB support is lacking.
-Andy
Cory Foy wrote:
Phillip Rhodes wrote:
David Spitz wrote:
* DB: MySQL... Who will vouch? I used Oracle previously... But it's expensive and the tentacles get deep.
MySQL has a reputation for being fast, but not really "enterprise grade." It lacked (until like in the last day or two) a lot of features
that most people consider standard for an enterprise grade RDBMS. I've
also heard stories of problems with data corruption. If I were going to
build a business around an open-source RDBMS, I'd look into PostgresSQL,
Firebird ( the old Borland Interbase) or Open Ingres. There are a LOT of open-source RDBMS systems out there now, so you may want to do some
comparing and benchmarking of you own to help decide which way to go.
You may also want to check out Cloudscape. We had a presentation on it and DB2 Everywhere last month (the powerpoint is on our site http://www.charjug.org) from IBM and it seemed to be pretty good. Not open source, but cheaper than full blown DB2.
I've also heard about a new DB from India called Daffodil. Don't know much about it though.
Cory
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