Re: [ossig] CA open-sources Ingres database - News & Technology- CNETAsia

["Raja Iskandar Shah" <ris.riscniaga@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

you may want to consider firebird, especially where the database needs
to handle transactions.

firebird was recently voted top 5 open source project by the linuxuser &
developer expo:
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/expo/index.php?option=content&task=blogsection&id=8&Itemid=87

firebird lost out by only 2 votes in a poll in 2003. But read the
postings:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116360&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

the only reason firebird is not more popular is because there is not
enough 'textbooks' on it. example, i am using an ms-sql book for my
firebird related projects.

if you have been using ms-jet (ms-access) or ms-sql, conversion to
firebird is very easy. in fact, converting ms-jet to firebird is easier
than converting ms-jet to ms-sql.

and it is really free - my no.1 reason. my no.2 reason is - it is really
easy. my no.3 reason is stored procedures and user defined functions.



Raja Iskandar Shah
http://riscniaga.netfirms.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Dr Molly Cheah <drcheah@streamyx.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:18 am
Subject: Re: [ossig] CA open-sources Ingres database - News & Technology
- CNETAsia

> Maybe you would want to see these?
> 
> PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. Commercial Databases: It's All About What 
> You Need
> http://www.devx.com/dbzon
> 
> The advantages of PostgreSQL
> http:
> 
> MySQL Gotchas
> http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html
> 
> MySQL and PostgreSQL Compared
> http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000705.php3?page=1
> 
> Molly
> 
> Lim Kheng Huat wrote:
> 
> > hi all,
> > Does anyone know which database more reliable, better 
> performance 
> > (Mysql, Postgresql or Ingres) ?
> > I know that current mysql version lack of features such as sub-
> query, 
> > store-procedure (i guess will improve it all in version 5) 
> Anything to 
> > share?
> > I found out there, there is no way to specify number of 
> connections to 
> > particular database in postgresql server. any comments?
> 
> 
> 
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