Re: What database
Re: What database
- Subject: Re: What database
- From: Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:10:31 +0000
FrontBase is IMHO the best choice for most purposes.
* It's reasonably priced.
The Developer licence, which has all the features of FrontBase
Enterprise, is free (which would make value for money -> ∞ :-) and the
E-business licence, which is enough for most users, is only $999.
* The support is amazing.
They run a mailinglist that FrontBase staff follows and questions I've
posted there have always been answered within a couple of hours.
A short story to illustrate my point: Two years ago, an important
database on our servers was accidentally completely wiped (an employee
got too trigger happy with EOModeler's "SQL"-button. Due to human
error, the backups turned out to be garbage and unusable. In
desperation I called FrontBase and asked if anything could be done.
They asked for a copy of the DB-file, and two hours later, the database
was back up and running. The really great part is that this all
happened around midnight on December 23rd, if I recall correctly, I was
never charged for this service and I'm not a large customer. I
sometimes wonder if I actually dreamed this whole episode :-).
* It's reliable.
Never had problems with it in 6 years running tens (and now hundreds)
of DBs.
* It just works.
It's amazing how nice it is to use a product that just works (I only
get that feeling for two software products I use, FrontBase and
CommuniGate Pro). When I first started using Oracle, MSSQL Server and
MySQL (*shudder*) I couldn't believe how much trouble it was. With
FrontBase, I never have to worry about anything - it just sits there
quietly and stores the data I throw at it, exactly as it should.
* WebObjects integration is excellent.
The plug-in has support for schema synchronization and other niceties
that I miss when using some other DBs.
* It runs on most platforms you can shake a stick at.
Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, various flavors of Linux etc.
* It's Danish
The Danes are an excellent nation and they make really good beer.
Support them ;-).
I should mention that I am NOT a database programmer by a long shot. I
do my programming in java and I basically want to know as little as I
can about the database that happens to store my objects. But because of
this, I can't comment on how good FB is for other, perhaps more
database centric development. But it's really good at disappearing into
the background and making me not worry about it.
Well, I was just going to write a short letter, but here we are. Once I
get going, I can't stop :-). I hope this unbiased letter will help you
select a DB ;-).
Cheers,
Hugi
// Hugi Thordarson
// Development mgr.
// Vefsyn hf. - development, analysis, marketing
// http://www.vefsyn.com/
On 21.10.2004, at 13:35, Marc Monguió Pellicer wrote:
Now that I upgraded to OpenBase 8 I found that is comes with 15 days
(only!) free development licence. What database would you use along
with webobjects if it had to be free (or at least free development
licence) and easy to install or well documented when using it with WO
? By now I'm trying to install MySQL using the info found at:
http://webobjects.webhop.org
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