Re: Free ware databases: which are worth the money?

hi!

i can strongly recommend PostgreSQL. i have worked with it modelling data for a java application and perl cgis using it.

it supports transactions, functions in pure sql, a procedural language similar to PL/SQL etc. etc. and is very robust.

the only thing i miss is handling tablespaces as on oracle.

i have sofar only used it on debian, but it should also be fine on other linuxes and some elitist bigots work with it on sun.

there is also good literature and a very good o'reilly book on it. on the web htpp://www.postgresql.org

regards

Mark Teehan wrote:
>
> Hi,
> we are investigating some freeware databases for deployment on systems that
> dont justify the cost of an oracle license, on linux. What databases out
> these can cope with a OLTP load, all transaction based, with some
> reporting? Uncomplicated databases, with mid size volumes of transactions
> (say low millions) and some reporting queries? I guess reliability is the
> primary concern, if something can be built as solidly as an oracle
> instance, with whatever OS protection this would need, then its a starting
> point for making a non oracle freeware enterprise database.
> Anyone have any suggestions on what I should download first?
>
> Thanks!
> Mark Teehan
> Singapore
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