Re: mysql ? sybase ? oracle ? postgres ?

On 2000-09-12, Tyson Lloyd Thwaites stated: } Oracle is even better than Sybase (of course, it's Oracle :) but you } can pay between 30,000 and 300,000 dollars for the big baby, and it's } a pain to use. Oracle can be a pain to use, but then you get yourself some nice Quest Software utilities for managing your Oracle database, and everything ends up nice in the end. ;-) I've been using Informix and MySQL a lot longer than Oracle, and have been happy with both. If you having speed problems, Informix might be a cheaper alternative than Oracle, as I used to use it [an old version - 4.10] at a library which had over a million records, but only about 150-200 concurrent users and the speed was amazing [this was running AIX 3.2.5]. I wouldn't recommend postgres if MySQL is slow for you - I don't think postgres would give you much improvement [but it is a free db, so it might be worth a try]. YMMV, /vjl/ [a Quest Software developer, not a salesman, speaking for himself]