I'm not sure why noone has mentioned Sybase yet? Sybase 11.0.3.3 on Linux is
free for all uses, and supports replication, backup servers etc etc etc.
Very full featured and quite fast from my experience, a true enterprise
RDBMS.
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Rimov
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:06 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Interbase Details [Was HARDWARE FOR J2EE apps]
>
>
> At 06:24 PM 10/11/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >Why would you use mySQL over Postgresl? They're both free, but
> Postgresql
> >has a
> >JDBC driver that's XA-compliant. Also, mySQL is known to blow
> away your whole
> >database if it has a bad crash, whereas Postgresql is better at
> persisting
> >data
> >through a bad crash.
> >
> >How does Interbase 6 compare to Postgresql? Is it free?
>
> Interbase is now free. It used to be a commercial Database sold by
> Inprise/Borland. Because this is the first opensource release,
> not all the
> new features for IB6 are fully available for ODBC and JDBC yet. I've
> worked with the JDBC drivers, and I have no complaints. Drivers that
> support all the new features are in the works (ODBC drivers are in beta,
> JDBC drivers are still in development).
>
> Interbase does support transactions and blobs. Most current users of
> Interbase are from Borland Delphi and C++ Builder camps.
>
> There's a company out of South Africa that's offering a
> replication engine
> that might be useful for people trying to set up a failover-capable
> system. (Don't have any details on hand... sorry)
>
> As far as speed goes, I don't know how it compares to postgresql. Mers,
> inc. has an online full-text search setup of all the Inprise newsgroups
> made from their own commercial extensions to interbase. Its pretty
> snappy. It exists on http://www.mers.com/
>
> And finally, for windows users, there's a very nice management
> console that
> you can use to locally or remotely administer your database.
> (The database
> itself doesn't have to reside on windows)
>
> I think that's about all I can say about it. The biggest problem it has
> right now is that the multi-threaded server version doesn't scale
> well with
> multiple processors. Of course, since its open source, we don't have to
> wait until Borland releases a new version a year down the road to
> get that
> feature fully going. :-)
>
> Hope this clarifies information on it!
> -Mike
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