Re: scientific database application

given you want a "free" database, use postgres. for distribution, i recomend you provide the data in the form of ANSI standard SQL ddl and dml statements, such as create table... insert into.... create index ...

the advantages in the distribution is that you are no longer concerned with your end user's database technology. it will work in any environment which supports ANSI SQL.

an alternative you might consider since you indicate security, tx, and recovery is not relevant is using flat files in fixed length format.

<guytheweird_at_caramail.com> wrote in message news:3B136E80.F0DE2565_at_caramail.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I do research in computational fluid dynamics and I'm wondering which
> free database (postgreSQL,MySQL,Interbase, ...) is best suited to store
> my datasets. My requirements are as follow:
> -very large datasets (dozens of gigabytes and even more).
> -data types : structured (multi dim arrays) or unstructured (blobs?)
> - no high concurrency levels: few data producers/solver ( (<10) and few
> data consummers/visualisation tools (<10)
> - security, transaction, recovery facilitities not very relevant
> - fast data access, simple query (mainly storage and retrieval of whole
> data sets)
> - and the last but not the least, the possiblity to embed the database
> directly in my commercial application to distribute the whole in a
> seamless way
>
> What are the licency policy generally in use?
>
> Any helps/comments/links are welcome. Thanks in advance
>
> GTW
>
>
Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:27:09 CEST