On 11/30/09 5:33 AM, "Alex Adams" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Alex, >From all text before, I can say it looks you have two options for now A) Postgre SQL B) Valentina DB Btw, Valentina is able to do: A) automatic compression of BLOB fields using ZIP, x7 save of space B) automatic compressions of network protocol. As far as I know, not mySQL, not Postgre not do that. Of course if file is binary you can self compress it using ZIP, and then store as is. But not always this is a way. > That is a very good question. There are several reasons. Most of them have > to do with security. Some server installations are locked down so tight > that getting permission to write to a directory on the server from an app > that does not reside on the server is problematic, even within a server > farm. Transferring a file over the internet securely requires a secure > communication channel. SSL or VPN, etc. With a pure database > implementation, the app just needs the address and logon for the database > server. Nothing else. FrontBase and OpenBase provide proprietary secure > communications between their drivers and the database itself. All traffic > is encrypted. Easy and safe. No coding or special setup required. The > same setup works for any platform. It's unbelievable how handy this is. > > There are other reasons, but it is Sunday night here and I think I'm done > thinking. > -- > Alex Adams -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin VP Engineering and New Technology Paradigma Software, Inc Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information http://www.paradigmasoft.com [I feel the need: the need for speed] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
