[email protected] wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 08/09/2011, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
If that is a factor for you, you might want to look at other
databases, such as Firebird (easy to run as embedded, too),
PostgreSQL, Oracle, or perhaps MySQL.
Which one requires least setup/dependencies and has least steep
learning
curve ?
Firebird is the easiers and smallest by FAR! At it has many more
feature - at least compared to MySQL. So small doesn't mean less
features here.
But which variant of Firebird? If I recall correctly there are three,
I was prodding at it a bit a few months ago and came to the conclusion
that Firebird classic might be a viable alternative to PostgreSQL
since it provided an equivalent to the listen/notify commands.
As far as I know, they are equivalent in exposed functionality since
version 2.1.
The only difference is how they handle concurrent connections, multiple CPU
cores and the cache.
Does that include asynchronous notifications (I forget what Firebird
calls these, but similar to Postgres's listen/notify) across sessions
and users? I am very likely wrong, but I got the impression that one of
the variants was file-access-only, and wasn't expecting that one to
handle notifications.
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