[Zope] Summary of DB Discussion

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Karl Fast wrote

>  - There is an ODBC DA, but it works only on Windows because there isn't a
>    good ODBC implementation on Linux. This isn't Zope's fault.

I'm not sure that this is true - there are a number of ODBC drivers on
Unix, some are open source, and mxODBC interfaces them to Python. ODBC
drivers for databases are available in some cases.

>  - There are DA's for MySQL and PostgreSQL, the two open source databases
>    (yeah, yeah, MySQL isn't truly open source--although one of the older
>    version is). They work, although both are still in development (is this
>    active?) and some people have had troubles getting them to compile. 
>    This seems especially true of the MySQL DA judging from pleas for help
>    sent to the zope list, although this may be more of a reflection of
>    MySQL's popularity over PostgreSQL.

There's also gadfly. :)
 

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