Re: About Databases...

2005-03-16 Thread PA
On Mar 16, 2005, at 12:59, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: Anyway, I'd recommend a closer study of PostgreSQL for anyone interested in a good RDBMS. Talking of which, I would recommend to take a serious look at FrontBase: http://www.frontbase.com/ Excellent database, running on pretty much anything. Whi

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-16 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
Peter A. Schott wrote: > PostGreSQL - good feature set, open source. Not sure on speed, but it > should run natively on Unix, Linux, and Win32 (not sure about BSD or > others). A lot of the core developers of PostgreSQL are apparently running *BSD. On the PostgreSQL-General mailing list, I've no

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-16 Thread Ola Natvig
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Firebird -- developed from Interbase 6, released last summer. Maybe "MaxDB by MySQL", developed from SAS DB (and likely available with similar licenses as MySQL -- I don't know if MySQL AB plan to merge SAS DB features into MySQL or the other way around ) It was cal

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-15 Thread Peter A.Schott
be able to "link" > everything > with a wxPython GUI)? Specifically, I work on Reservoir Simulation, and > usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on the > oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING about databases > ;-) > In genera

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-14 Thread Ruben Baumann
"link" everything with a wxPython GUI)? Specifically, I work on Reservoir Simulation, and usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on the oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING about databases ;-) In general, my data will be numeric (floats, i

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-12 Thread Lee Harr
, I should be able to "link" > everything > with a wxPython GUI)? Specifically, I work on Reservoir Simulation, and > usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on the > oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING about databases > ;-)

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-12 Thread EP
"link" > everything > with a wxPython GUI)? Specifically, I work on Reservoir Simulation, and > usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on > the > oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING about > databases > ;-)

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Kern
Python GUI)? Specifically, I work on Reservoir Simulation, and usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on the oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING about databases ;-) In general, my data will be numeric (floats, integers). Will a binary storage (if it i

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-11 Thread Simon John
Tom Willis wrote: [snip] > Whoa, you are asking alot. Without knowing anything about your > requirements except what was mentioned in your post. I would say you > would quite possibly want the functionality of a relational database. I'm not sure I agree with that. If the data is likely to be lar

Re: About Databases...

2005-03-11 Thread Tom Willis
ython (and, of course, I should be able to "link" > everything > with a wxPython GUI)? Specifically, I work on Reservoir Simulation, and > usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on the > oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING

About Databases...

2005-03-11 Thread andrea_gavana
I work on Reservoir Simulation, and usually I have to store a discrete/huge amount of data (it depends on the oil field). As you may have understood, I know almost NOTHING about databases ;-) In general, my data will be numeric (floats, integers). Will a binary storage (if it is possible) reduce the size