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Was this formerly known as "Adabas"?
For our application (simple membership database) mySQL is overkill actually.
We don't need "Oracle-like" features... just simple, reliable SQL database.
That's why I suggested mySQL. This could be done as well in Access but
I resist the proprietary nature of that solution.
Eric
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:57:13AM -0400, Noah silva wrote:
> Yes,
>
> It's free (source and price) - they even sent me free CD-ROMs of it. It
> has VERY good PDF documentation, it supports "standard" SQL, as well as
> Oracle SQL. It does transactions, hot-backups, versioning, etc. It has a
> web interface for administering it, and also a nice GUI client for windows
> (2 actually). The server easily runs on linux/x86 windows/x86 and/or
> solaris/x86, as well as most of the commercial unixes. Unfortunatly I
> havn't gotten it to work on linux/sparc yet, but then I havn't tried that
> hard. It has odbc and jdbc support. It really can do pretty much
> everything oracle can do, and for free. Or - you can pay for support (not
> cheap though!)
>
> The reasons I can see _not_ to use it are:
> * Not everything integrates well with it. There is more support for MySQL
> than anything else in linux.
>
> But then again, this is like voting for the guy you think will win, you
> should vote for the guy you WANT to win instead. It is for sure more work
> to install and configure at this point than f.e. mysql.
>
> I havn't done any formal benchmarks, but SAPDB is fairly speedy. It's
> slower than MySQL but uhm.. well that's because MySQL doesn't -do-
> much. It's certainly faster than PostGreSQL at most things.
>
> -- noah silva
>
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Paul wrote:
>
> > Is SAPDB free and open source?
> >
> > >Why do mySQL and PostGreSQL always get mentioned, but SAPDB
> > >doesn't. Compare speed and features... SAPDB competes with Oracle the
> > >other two really can't touch it...
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