- DBI is a perl module to handle the communication with various databases.
- Postgres is free. I believe that you can buy commercial support, but I don't know
where. May be Rich can jump in with that.
- DBI is free and so is perl. I'm cheap & easy, but not free.
On 01/14/2004 02:34:52 PM, Ryan wrote:
> what is DBI?
>
> is postgre free? Is it like linux where you pay for support? I cant find any
> licensing info on the website. Most shops dont need oracle, sql server,
> sybase, or DB2.
>
> Most applications are small. I was on a project where the government had an
> Oracle EE license on windows. They didnt even use foreign key constraints.
> Had a whopping 13 tables, 20 MB of data, and 10-15 users. Any free database
> could have handled that.
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> > On 01/14/2004 12:44:25 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > > If you have the choice, look at PostgreSQL in addition to MySQL. From
> what
> > > I've seen, it's more mature than MySQL.
> >
> > I second that. PostgresSQL supports transactions and uses perl as its
> > scripting language. From what little I read and saw (just a little pilot
> > project with the goal to see "what the heck is Postgres"), it's a very
> > decent database, with a decent performance and capabilities sufficient
> > for a small, departmental database server. I know nothing of clustering,
> > distributed database, database links, replication and alike. In other
> words,
> > I wouldn't use it for an enterprise-wide server for GE or Wall-Mart, but
> > it can be quite a convenient storage space for a small corner shop or a
> > small department. Because of perl and DBI, exchanging data with other
> > servers like oracle or UDB (DB2) is easy.
> >
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