RE: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs. Interbase

The link that goes to interbase's web site in freshmeat.com redirects to http://www.borland.com/interbase/ which does not list the product as free or open source? Is there another version? oktay -----Original Message----- From: Luke Welling [mailto:luke@tangledweb.com.au] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 3:17 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs. Interbase Arnold Gamboa wrote: > I'm currently in serious research on what database to use for a B2B site > which is expected to hold millions of records. I have in so far considered > two open source databases - Interbase and PostgreSQL. With this in mind, I'm > sending this email to both the PostgreSQL and Interbase mailing lists and > also on PHP's. I would appreciate what ever information you can provide. > Thanks :) > > My inquiry: > > Please discuss as to your point of view the advantage of PostgreSQL over > Interbase and/or vise versa. I'm considering three (3) important points > > 1. Speed > 2. Data Reliability > 3. Portability I first saw your message on the PostgreSQL list, but figured what I was going to answer belonged here more. One other thing you might like to consider is documentation. Interbase probably has better documentation than PostgreSQL from their respective primary sources, but you will find a *lot* more documentation on using PHP with PostgreSQL than with Interbase. Where PHP examples and documentation is database specific, it is mostly MySQL, some PostgreSQL, some Oracle and very little of any other. Cheers, Luke Welling -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net