Another fact about Derby. Derby is fully DB2 compatible (sql and jdbc) and you can switch easily to a "DB2 Community Edition" which is the full powered db2 product without clustering.
But I dont want to produce additional work and this is not an extremly important question, so I will leave the decision to the other members and not slow down the development process Final Vote: +0 on H2 and Derby andrea antonello writes: > Hi, aware of the fact that I can't vote, I will anyway give my comment > (in case of an even, this might count as a 0.0001) :) > > +1 for H2 for obvious JGrass reasons and because the indexes seems to > be not too far > +1 for spatialite whenever it will come > > Ciao, > Andrea > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Andrea Aime<aa...@opengeo.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> so it seems we might need to reach an agreement on the embedded db to use. >> >> H2 pros: >> - frequent releases >> - fast >> - already used in GeoWebCache, GeoServer and JGrass >> - already used in GeoTools modules >> - can probably use the EPSG sql dumps directly (it >> has sql compatibility modes for mysql, oracle >> and postgres, we need to find which one works the best) >> H2 cons: >> - one man show >> >> JavaDB pros: >> - supported by Sun >> - the community version of it, Derby, is not a one >> man show >> JavaDB cons: >> - supported by Sun (pray never to find a bug or you'll wait >> for the fix for a long long time) >> - would be an extra dependency for GeoWebCache, GeoServer and JGrass >> >> Votes? I'm +1 on H2, +0 on JavaDB, would be more interested in >> Derby instead if we went down that path. >> >> Oh... mind, we can also have both modules I guess, provided we >> have enough people to back each of them. I think people time >> would be better spent doing something other than duplicating >> work, but in the end in OS the discriminator is the will to >> do something, independent of what kind of duplication that >> might cause. >> >> Cheers >> Andrea >> >> -- >> Andrea Aime >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org >> Expert service straight from the developers. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >> server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> _______________________________________________ >> Geotools-devel mailing list >> Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
