On 1/10/2015 5:39 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
Using a free database like PostgreSQL will EASILY handle what you want to do.
Indeed. There are only two technical reasons for rejecting relational databases out of hand. Neither of them are in the listed requirements.
The first is that your data doesn't fit neatly into table rows. Hospital patient records are my go-to example. Relational databases suck at storing and retrieving this kind of data. Trying to make the data fit into tables anyway is a recipe for disaster.
The second is that you need to scale beyond the capacity of the underlying hardware to handle relational queries. This means very large data sets and very complex queries. Relational database performance drops in proportion to data size and query complexity.
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