Flavio, > Well... That's a good enough reason. Driving that Sun stuff through exec() > and command-line utilities should be extremely painful and hard to maintain > in the future. > Indeed, I did consider that for about 5 seconds, then smacked myself in the forehead... > Do you really need to use MySQL -- or any other full-fledged RDBMS? I am not > sure how big will be your dataset, how often it will be updated and how many > users you'll have, so I can't help that much. > We're looking at about 100 users (for now), and a dataset starting at about 3 million rows. This will grow steadily through the years though, at a rate of about 3+ million rows per year. > If you really need an RDBMS, you could consider PostgreSQL and the BaseTen > framework (basetenframework.org). It feels a lot like Core Data, but for > Postgres. > I actually had my head buried in the sand solely thinking of MySQL, only for sake of familiarity. But this framework looks fantastic - I'll play around with it and see what I can come up with. And I have little doubt that PostgreSQL has plenty of power to pull this sort of project off. > Why do we, developers, love challenges? ;) > The question of the ages :)
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