DB curiosity

[Etienne-Hugues Fortin]

Hi,   Lately, I read a lot about different framework and applications servers.  One interesting thing, is that about each of them claim to give access to db connection pool easily.  When you look further, some force you to use *their* database or other major (usually it means Oracle only) and others have absolutely no restrictions at all.  Now, as I'm trying to start a new project and I'm getting stuck by the choice of the database.  I need a database that can be used on the internet and where licensing is based on simultaneous connection instead of per user (which usually mean that we can't use it on the web).  Price is also a factor because I don't want my customers to pay 90% for Oracle or IBM product and only 10% for my development.   Our new product will be used by lof of different company so I can't just pick what a specific customer have in-house and use it. So, what people who do web development with Turbine use as their database backend?  I guess it will be Oracle and Sybase based on what I read on the "HowTo: Database Adapters" but just in case...   What would be the different DB that can be easily include with our development without too much concern about license (or with license program that are easy to work with)?   By the way, our prototype have been made in perl with Mysql but I have some concern about Mysql for growing system where data seem to only get in and never get out...   I didn't want to put this message in the comp.databases newsgroups because it's too much web-related and too noisy.  I want opinion from people who do web development for their living and are not biased by commercial obligation (like Oracle Web Apps which run incidentely on Oracle or IBM Websphere which run on DB2 mainly and with a touch of support for Oracle).  So, developer who use Turbine are probably a very good pool of information on this subject.   I can compile these informations and send them back for inclusion in the Turbine documentation.  It can certainly help some people like me.   Thanks     Etienne Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED]