Re: mysql ? sybase ? oracle ? postgres ?

Oh, and we forgot to mention...there is always interbase. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vince LaMonica <Vince.LaMonica@quest.com> To: Tyson Lloyd Thwaites <tysonlt@webmedia.com.au> Cc: php-db <php-db@lists.php.net>; Anna Soobrattee <annazaraah@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] 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] > >