Re: Database Application.
Re: Database Application.
- Subject: Re: Database Application.
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:33:01 -0500
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 09:01 AM, Tony S. Wu wrote:
MySQL is good.
PostgreSQL is better. ;-)
There is a sort of low-level ongoing debate about whether MySQL is
actually a database. Until recently, it didn't support basic features
like transactions, and I believe (though I may be wrong) that that
support is still limited.
The consensus seems to be that MySQL is marginally faster, sometimes,
but that PostgreSQL is *far* more capable. The PostgreSQL folks see
themselves as competing with Oracle and Sybase, and it shows. I
personally have written many database applications with it, and it's
the bee's knees.
http://www.postgresql.org
Here's an outstanding ADC article on installing PostgreSQL:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/postgres.html
There's also a handy-dandy PostgreSQL installation package on Marc
Liyanage's site. It's not quite a double-click installation, but it's
very close.
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/
Maybe one of these days I'll write a simple prefs pane for controlling
the server. That's a neat idea. Let me file that one away somewhere.
Of course, Oracle and Sybase are available in free developer versions
for Mac OS X, and in production versions for a price.
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