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  1. So what?? by Bish.dk · · Score: 1 · on IBM, MS Critique MySQL

    it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open Source Software, would be so negative

    Being a defender of OS doesn't imply that you're not allowed to bash individual products. MySQL is fine for a lot of sites, but I'm sure that in IBM's world there are plenty of applications where it's definately not sufficient.
    I once heard one of my teachers say that MySQL basically is a wrapper for a file-system. Granted, he was also working for a company that is in direct competetion with MySQL, but as such, he has probably also taken a good long look at MySQL and thus have a good idea of what is going on behind the stage.

  2. Re:I used to like this idea. by Tsk · · Score: 1 · on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System
    * Portability: Have you ever tried to move data from DB system to another? Not fun! There need to be some standards! There is such a thing as SQL-92, but nobody uses it yet. Yet? Right...

    Frontbase from fronline software uses SQL-92 ...

  3. Re:Screenshots? by plsuh · · Score: 1 · on Mac OS X Version of Lotus Notes 6

    You really need to check out the Enterprise Objects Framework layer of WebObjects. You can use this in a web app or in a Cocoa app. It's an object persistence framework that talks to a variety of databases -- support for Oracle, MS SQL Server 7, and and MySQL is built in, FrontBase and OpenBase are excellent Mac OS X native relational databases, and it basically should work with any database that has as JDBC 2 type 4 driver available. EOF has been around since the NeXT days and is a rock-solid, mature database access technology. ADO by comparison is a complete wannabe.

    Also, check out the recently released dual 1 GHZ G4 2U rackmount server from yellow dog linux's developer, Terra Soft Solutions.


    --Paul

    Quote:
    Apple has an easy to use data access framework a la ADO.net (with Postgres support): Rack mounted OS X application & database servers

  4. here is a very good alternative by stefaanh · · Score: 1 · on dB Choices - Oracle, DB2 or Something Else?
    Just because I'm extremely happy not to have chosen Oracle or Sybase or Informix: You should definitly try out FrontBase everything you've asked for - and more - much more:

    A free SIX months developers licence with all options active. An active dev-community. A no-nonsense support - even if you only have a free developers license.

    Scalable license scheme, SQL92 compliant, row level privs...
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X Server
    RedHat 6.x
    SuSE 6.x (Intel and Power PC)
    YellowDog Linux
    Debian Linux
    Stormix
    Mandrake Linux
    FreeBSD
    Solaris
    HP-UX
    Windows NT
    go and read the specs!

    Those guys react as if they were your collegues!

  5. MySQL rocks - but Frontbase looks pretty good too! by kordless · · Score: 1 · on MYSQL & Row Level Locking
    I've had the chance to research a lot of db systems lately and although I love MySQL, no row locking and the lack of transactions is a drawback. I'm thrilled that they will now support it, but in the meantime you might want to check out Frontbase. They really have it going on (just got vc money too) and they have been SUPER helpful in answering our questions.

    Realtime, distributed indexing of the Internet. Coming soon!

    Kord

  6. Re:Best tool for the job - commercial databases! by Malcontent · · Score: 2 · on MySQL And PostgreSQL Compared

    Postgres has al the features you mentioned and more. If you look into it you will discover that postgres has some rarely used but very powerful features like operator overloding, spacial datatypes, object oriented storage, loadable languages etc. As an aside Interbase also kicks serious ass look into it.

    SQL anywhere is nice but thre really is no need to pay for it when comperable databases are free (same goes for SQL server BTW).

    Oracle and DB/2 OTOH are still very far ahead in enterprise features like replication, clustering, live backups etc. If you want all of these and don't want to pay for oracle or DB/2 check out frontbase for about 2 grand you get all this and more. The docs are pretty lame but the engine is great.

  7. Frontbase by DiehardMM · · Score: 1 · on Programming the Perl DBI
    One db I've never seen mentioned here on /. and deserves mention, is Frontbase. They offer a free version (though not open source), which does support transactions, stored procedures, foreign keys, permissions, etc (not sure about cross database joins :-) ) and is fast (the 0.5s quoted above for an insert/commit seems like an awfully long time). They also offer some value added features if you're willing to pay. One of those includes import/export (which sux cause we use the free version), but they do give away a developer version which is totally functional (and suffices to do import/export). We've been using it for almost a year, and they mean it when they say zero down time.

    Now I'm not a 'serious' db programmer, but I think FB should be checked out.