Alex, a couple of threads in the past have discussed this: Klaus Sonneleiter said: "Postgres. It's scalable, it's free, it supports all the standards a true database should support (unlike mySQL) and you get the source."
Also, Scott said this: "Recently I came across this link: http://www.commandprompt.com This company offers some interesting PostgreSQL related products as well their own quesi-xml style web-application platform, although it is very limited in functionality compared to Witango. Also, it looks like the entire "Practical PostgreSQL" book (published by O'Reilly) is on-line here." John Newsom put up a comparison of some SQL databases here (not big expensive ones or open source) http://jnewsom.home.attbi.com/SQLdb.html Jason Pamental wrote this: "This was in a recent e-week issue, and addresses performance of 4 different db engines... Very interesting reading! http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=702&a=23115,00.asp Also, one rather subjective response on Postgres: we used it on a site a couple years ago on a dual p2 266 el cheapo machine running solaris/php/postgres on a site that got at its peak over 2 million page views/month with db access on every page. We absolutely never ever had a problem with db lag, and the site performance was exceptional. All told the hardware and software for that project cost about $2000, the only software being $700 for a copy of Solaris 2.6. Not scientific, but certainly an indication of a pretty solid performer..." Also Jason followed up with: "MySQL I�ve found to be pretty easy to work with, but another one to consider would be Primebase � it�s out for OS X, has Mac ODBC drivers available, is pretty affordable (licenses start around $500 I think) and you can learn lots more about it from Robert Garcia. He�s been a tremendous help to us." Jose Kuhn reckons: "There is also Frontbase http://www.frontbase.com. I have been very pleased with Primebase though!! The installation on Mac OS X is a pain though." I am sure you'll get some more serious feedback from these people as they come online. Garth At 08:03 2/08/02 -0500, you wrote: >Here s a more on-topic question for here.... > >We re a Win2k shop looking to move to OS X Server 10.2 on XServe. >Currently we re running SQL Server 2k but frankly, part of my goal is to >get rid of all MS software for our servers. There are quite a few reasons >for this, but I won t elaborate. > >Now, my budget is already going to go down the tubes with the >XServes...and possibly WiTango (price still matters, and I ll say that a >large part of my reluctance to embrace paying $$$ for WiTango 5 is the >price and my viewpoint that yes, its just an SP2 derivative). But you don >t want to skimp on the database. So...I may just keep one of our servers >for SQL Server but what low cost or freeware databases do you suggest? >MySQL is what many people seem to use, but from my reading not experience >mind you its not a real database. Yet large sites like SlashDot and others >run off it just fine. > >I m not looking for a database war here, I m not looking for support >options I m just asking from what you currently run or have run in the >past what do you recommend? > >-- >Alex Kac, CEO/Developer > >Innovation in Personal and Business Information Management >http://www.pocketinformant.com/ > >zoomzoom ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
