[Zope] Which database?

[Jonathan Cyr]

Hi,

Gosh... Never Ever... I guess MySQL should close up shop...

Your question of Databases is actually quite personal to your project... 
What do you need?   Speed/Throughput, ease-of-use, help resources, 
deployment tools, robust SQL...

The nice thing about MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Firebird, is they are all 
avaiable to try out.   I like MySQL's minimalist approach for RDBMS, it 
fits the needs of a project of mine, and the damn thing screams.

You should hit the MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. mailing lists, and ask a few 
questions with your needs in mind.

Spend some time outlining your needs, and you'll reap the benefits down 
the road... 

-Jon





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Tino Wildenhain wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Am Montag, den 29.11.2004, 15:33 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Cyr:
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>>Everything I've read says that MySQL is much faster, and matches
>>Oracle for speed... If your going to do heavy lifting on a budget...
>>something to consider.
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>Never ever. Well, if you do read only simple selects. But then
>you can also store the data in Files and use memory mapping.
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>IF you want to do heavy inserts while complex selects are
>going on you see a lot of speed differences in databases.
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>Not to mention what happens if you are so old fashioned to expect
>you get out of the database what you put in - and not whatever
>the database decides to let you see *wink* ;)
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>>An advantage of MySQL is that it doesn't encourage you to code in the
>>database... stored procedures et al, are nice, but not as easy to
>>manage as keeping it in the app code.
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>This sounds like an euphemism :-) "Doesnt encourage" is better
>then the bare truth: "Does not allow" ;) 
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>Well, for playing around, store some simple unimportant things, 
>mySQL is certainly ok and a bit faster then Gadfly.
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>If you love your data, want to learn SQL, want a unique
>interface (from different applications) to your data,
>want security, dont have only trivial queries, well, then
>maybe you want another database.
>
>Regards
>Tino
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