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We are developing j2ee data management apps. Our main DB was Oracle and we have ports to other DB's. We did some research to find free DB for cheaper alternative to "big guys" and tryed SAPDB 7.4 and MaxDB 7.5. (Host platform is Linux). I'm, generally, very pleased with the results. Good things are: - Good performance. Our stress tests showed performance on par with tuned up Oracle. - Pretty good SQL support. We have very complex and big (many kilobytes) automatically generated SQL queries and DB doesn't seem to have any problems with it. - Simple to use and administer. Even though out people didn't have idea what this DB is all about they mastered it in no time. The whole installation on Linux takes no more then 15-20 minutes. - Excellent JDBC driver. It is small and it works. It took only 3 days to port the whole app (very big one) to SAPDB. - Mailing lists are very informative and helpfull. - Never noticed any stability problems. Some areas where I would like to see improvements in future versions: - Outer joins are extremely slow (not really slower then Oracle ones, but still could be better). - Only very basic setup for stand-by DB is possible. - webdbm is not powerfull enough, and there are no other GUI admin interfaces for Linux. Though, it is not as important for "die hard" dba's. - Organizational problem might be that there are not enough people on market who would know MaxDB administration, but as I said staff with basic DB knowlage picks it up very quickly. In two words I definitely would recommend this DB. Alexei Novakov Ladoga Software Inc. Chief Software Architect -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
