On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > >Greetings, > >I've taken up a project that will rely very heavily on remote database >access. Naturally, the choice as to which database engine to use is a >crucial one. > >I'd like to stay away from the commercial database suites (i.e. Oracle) for >the time being, however I will eventually move to it once the database grows >to over 100M records. In the meantime however, I'm debating heavily between >MySQL and Berkeley DB with a multi-threaded socket frontend. > >Suggestions and comments?
¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it adds MVCC (multi-version concurrency control), which will improve a lot its multi-user capabilities. And, I know of some projects that are using it for multi-GB databases. I've been using it for or student database for more than two years (since version 6.0), and am quite happy with it. See www.postgresql.org for more information. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro José Lobo Perea Tel: +34 91 336 78 19 Centro de Cálculo Fax: +34 91 331 92 29 E.U.I.T. Telecomunicación e-mail: pjl...@euitt.upm.es Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Ctra. de Valencia, Km. 7 E-28031 Madrid - España / Spain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
