Re: Which Database

From: Francisco Reyes <fjrm_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:52:18 -0500
Message-ID: <MPG.14ea9078dff417a798968a@news.newsguy.com>

In article <G3ve6.1978$O5.21381_at_stones>, nick.wild_at_musicfactory.co.uk says...
> We curently use Access as the backend for many of our web sites. However as
> traffic is rising and the sites are developing it is proving not robust
> enough.
>
> I do not have the budget yet for SQL Server with the Internet connector
> licenses and do not wish to pay for a 2 year licence for Oracle 8i (which is
> in budget).
> Any ideas as to an alternative and more cost effective robust database?

PostgreSQL. Supports a good number of the things you would expect on a database including transactions, foreign keys.. next version coming within the next month or two should have outer joins, which were badly missing, and an early form of replication.

http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.pgsql.com (commercial support for PostgreSQL). Received on Tue Feb 06 2001 - 21:52:18 CST