Peter A. Schott wrote: > PostGreSQL - good feature set, open source. Not sure on speed, but it > should run natively on Unix, Linux, and Win32 (not sure about BSD or > others).
A lot of the core developers of PostgreSQL are apparently running *BSD. On the PostgreSQL-General mailing list, I've noted that people run it on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and all kinds of 'nixes. I think that the keyword is POSIX compliance. The native Win32 version (8.x) is very recent, and probably not a good bet for a production environment for the time being. Earlier versions may be run under Cygwin. The "speed" of a database engine is notoriously hard to assess by objective means. It will depend on tuning, indexing, load, read/write ratio, number of concurrent users, and a lot of other variables. Some RDBMSs also performs terribly in situations where others shine. Anyway, I'd recommend a closer study of PostgreSQL for anyone interested in a good RDBMS. I have been using MySQL for several years, but have recently come to appreciate all the advanced features of PostgreSQL that still is kind of "vaporware" in MySQL. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen just another global village idiot -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
