John, you trying to start a religious war?!?! For starters, you'll almost certainly have license obligations - even if it's the GNU license.
Well I don't know what your needs are - a flat file db may be sufficient for your application. But to my mind, you can't go past MySQL v5. Traditionally, Postgres has been preferred by some programmers who wanted a transaction-safe DB, with triggers and stored procedures. MySQL has had transactions for a while (if you use InnoDB tables), and v5 supports triggers and procedures. It also has both database clustering and database replication. But then again, SQL Lite may be all you need.... Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: John Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:02 > To: dbi-users@perl.org > Cc: cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net > Subject: [cgiapp] What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app? > > > > Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll > need database. We want the db to be as "free" as possible, > but still fully multi-user (web-based). Would the best route > be MySql on Linux? Random access files? Something else? We > want no licensing obligations (no Oracle, Sequal Server, > etc.). We want to go with Perl because it's the best > programming language invented by humans. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
