At 16:43 12.10.00 , you wrote:
>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.
Replication using 11.0.3.3? Do you mean with the additional Replication
Server (commercial) or is there another way? Are you using replication with
that version of sybase? We are deciding between sybase 11.0.3.3 and
Interbase 6 and are currently leaning towards Interbase because we don't
know how Sybase will support this product in the future. What if they
decide not to support JDBC X.X for the free versions at some point. then
you'll be forced to buy the commercial version. that's why we felt we'd go
for Interbase if it works well with orion. We have installed it here and
have migrated one large orion application (ejb and direct sql) that was
running on adabas to interbase. that took two days and seems to work very
well.
it's a shame Software AG failed so miserably making Adabas D a
well-supported product. they were the first commercial database vendor to
port to linux and the software has all the features you need (including
clustering support) at an unbeatable price. somehow nobody outside germany
seems to use it, which is why we'll eventually be dropping it (no community
support).
robert
>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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