You're likely to get as many opinions as there are respondents to your question. MySQL seems to be the most popular for smaller Web apps. It's free, Free, easy to use, well documented, widely understood, and capable enough for most tasks. PostgreSQL is also popular for similar reasons, but my impression is far fewer people are familiar with it than MySQL. I've heard that PostgreSQL might be somewhat more capable than MySQL, but I haven't used PostgreSQL myself. Since this sounds like your first open-source DB experience, I think you'd be better off with MySQL, since it's easiest to find help should you need it.
Ted Behling -----Original Message----- From: John Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:02 PM To: dbi-users@perl.org Cc: cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net Subject: 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.
