Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-12-04 Thread Sam Vilain
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 19:00 -0800, Mark wrote: > So followup question: are any of these other systems good > with large'ish databases? I have multi-TB Oracle databases that > I'd like to explore on a "free" database. Is that realistic? > My current system relies heavily on partitions, bitmap inde

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-12-01 Thread John Siracusa
On 12/1/05 10:00 PM, Mark wrote: > For example, I have a ~10 billion row, ~1TB table, time partitioned, > with about 10-20 million rows per day. I need "interactive" > performance (2-10 seconds) response on queries that are confined > to 2-3 days data. Obviously, I can't scan a TB table each time

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-12-01 Thread Mark
Sam Vilain wrote: There are some clearly defined areas where this certainly is the right answer. Oracle still has some killer OLAP features in its Enterprise product compared to Postgres; off the top of my head: - bitmap indexes (though the latest version of Bizgres, a Postgres extension,

RE: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-12-01 Thread Sam Vilain
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:34 -0600, Jesse, Rich wrote: > Being from primarily an Oracle background (as far as DBs go), I'd say > overall "Oracle". Free? Yes! There's now a free Express Edition > ("XE") currently for Linux and Winders (beta) which can be downloaded > from http://www.oracle.com/tec

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-12-01 Thread John Scoles
ED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:02 PM To: dbi-users@perl.org Cc: cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net Subject: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app? Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll need database. We want the db to be as "free"

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-30 Thread C. Jon Larsen
You'd be remiss not to look at Firebird. Mysql5, Firebird 1.5+ and Postgres are what you should be comparing and testing in my opinion.

RE: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
ability and flexibility. HTH! GL! Rich -Original Message- From: John Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:02 PM To: dbi-users@perl.org Cc: cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net Subject: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app? Hi - I'm s

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-30 Thread John Armstrong
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Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-30 Thread Tim Bunce
I'd just like to ask anyone thinking of replying to this thread to *please* only do so if you can add something useful that's not already been said, and do so politely, with consideration for the validity of other peoples views. Tim. On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:02:23PM -0800, John Armstrong wrote:

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-30 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2005-11-29 18:13:04 -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: > At 5:02 PM -0800 11/29/05, John Armstrong wrote: > >Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll need > >database. > > If you want something that's trivially easy to use, try SQLite. [...] > Its also faster than anything else fo

RE: [cgiapp] What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-30 Thread Josh Danziger
tely change the platform just by changing the DSN. Josh -- Josh Danziger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:02 PM To: dbi-users@perl.org Cc: cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net Subject: [cgiapp] What's the best

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-29 Thread louis gonzales
postgreSQL! On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, John Armstrong wrote: Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll need database. We want the db to be as "free" as possible, but still fully multi-user (web-based). Would the best route be MySql on Linux? Random access files? Something else? W

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-29 Thread Darren Duncan
At 5:02 PM -0800 11/29/05, John Armstrong wrote: Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll need database. We want the db to be as "free" as possible, but still fully multi-user (web-based). Would the best route be MySql on Linux? Random access files? Something else? We want no

Re: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-29 Thread Tyler MacDonald
John Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll need > database. We want the db to be as "free" as possible, but still fully > multi-user (web-based). Would the best route be MySql on Linux? Random > access files? Something else? We want no

RE: [cgiapp] What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-29 Thread Ron Savage
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:09:26 -0500, Josh Danziger wrote: Hi Josh > arbitrary SQL statements on the database a breeze. I've heard > arguments that postgresql is a better database platform; the claim > is that postgres is more functional and runs faster (I don't know > how this changed with MySQL

RE: What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-29 Thread Ted Behling
MySQL, since it's easiest to find help should you need it. Ted Behling -Original Message- From: John Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:02 PM To: dbi-users@perl.org Cc: cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net Subject: What's the best "free" DB for

What's the best "free" DB for a web-based app?

2005-11-29 Thread John Armstrong
Hi - I'm soon to be doing a Perl app on the Internet, that'll need database. We want the db to be as "free" as possible, but still fully multi-user (web-based). Would the best route be MySql on Linux? Random access files? Something else? We want no licensing obligations (no Oracle, Sequal Server,