[Linux-users] Data Base Opinion

[David Bandel]

On 8/20/07, Rick Sivernell <res005ru at verizon.net> wrote:
> all
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> I am in the planning stage of a new commercial product. It will be cross platform,
> Unix Linux and M$ludge. M$ludge creates the best money though.
>
> The product is a Contact Manager program. I will need to use a standard db, with the ability to allow Oracle SQL Server, if they wish to waste money, or some other db. For my default
> db I have thought about Postgress, or something like sleepycat. What would others
> think about these or any other db types. It would be nice to have a sql statement to
> load, read or manipulate data. No flames,good reasoning please. I will be using the
> wxWidgets for C++.
>

Having used both Oracle and Postgres, but not many others, I would
look at  how much recoding would need to be done to ensure both good
Oracle as well as whatever other database support.  I know the syntax
and feature support (meaning things like outer joins, etc.) both
follow the SQL standard.  While I personally use and prefer Postgres,
your decision must be as pragmatic as possible.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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