Joe wrote: > > This may be the time to learn about MySQL/mariadb. No, it's not a > resource hog like SQL Server, it will run happily on a small computer. > I used to run it with fairly decent speed on an Atom-based netbook, > and I had about twenty databases on a 256MB RAM desktop that I used to > use as a home server.
I'll just point out that in 2000, a midsized database server might have four cpu cores running at 1GHz each, 512MB of RAM and four disks capable of a total of 400 operations per second and a total read bandwidth of perhaps 500MB/s. We have incredibly cheap resources available now, and running MariaDB or Postgresql or another "major" database is within reach of basically any desktop computer of the last five years. -dsr-
