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Re: Database choices


  • Subject: Re: Database choices
  • From: "John Huss" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:31:48 -0500

We use FrontBase for an application that does mostly large, complex queries (aggregating data, etc).  A few things about FrontBase have bothered me and made me consider switching to Postgres:

- The database process crashes sometimes due to various queries that it doesn't like
- Left join performance is bad
- Legacy left join syntax can return incorrect results
- OR performance is bad
- Multi-column indexes only allow a range of values for the last column of the index - resulting in bad performance
- Adding columns to large tables can take hours and makes the DB unresponsive

So I would say that FrontBase is great for applications that do simple, fast queries, but maybe not if your needs are more demanding.

John
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