On 8/18/03 Dan Shafer wrote >Poking around database support in Rev, I spent a bit more time looking >into Valentina this evening. > >Is anyone out there using it? I mean, $200 for a database in an era >when mySQL -- one of the best databases on the planet -- is free and >ODBC connectors are also mostly free? > >So if someone's using it, I'd be mighty curious to know why. It doesn't >seem to me to have any advantages at all. > >If it was $50 or less, I might license it just for testing locally, but >I can set up a local instance of mySQL for free, so.... > >What am I missing here, people?
I am using Valentina for a multimedia project I am working on that is powered by a database. I have used mySQL in my web applications for the past 5 years but chose Valentina for the database in this project because there is no installation, port numbers, daemons, etc. to worry about. I just need the db files and the XCMD and everything works great. This project will be distributed on CD-ROM and this makes it a good solution for this delivery platform. I have read from numerous people that it is very fast and have not experienced anything to the contrary. A good portion of the interface in the project is created dynamically from DB data and the bottleneck is definitely not the db. After using Valentina for a year I really like it and am interested in it's new client/server functionality. This might make Valentina a viable option for networked applications in a LAN/WAN environment. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
