Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs. Interbase

2001-05-11 Thread Geoff Caplan
Hi > Please discuss as to your point of view the advantage of PostgreSQL over > Interbase and/or vise versa. I'm considering three (3) important points > I'm just evaluating Interbase and there is an important point that did not come out in the thread. It seems that Borland went back on key com

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs. Interbase

2001-05-07 Thread Luke Welling
"Altunergil, Oktay"wrote: > The link that goes to interbase's web site in freshmeat.com redirects to > http://www.borland.com/interbase/ > which does not list the product as free or open source? > > Is there another version? > > oktay My understanding is that the current open source version is a

RE: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs. Interbase

2001-05-07 Thread Altunergil, Oktay
ay 07, 2001 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs. Interbase Arnold Gamboa wrote: > I'm currently in serious research on what database to use for a B2B site > which is expected to hold millions of records. I have in so far considered > two open source databa

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs. Interbase

2001-05-07 Thread Luke Welling
Arnold Gamboa wrote: > I'm currently in serious research on what database to use for a B2B site > which is expected to hold millions of records. I have in so far considered > two open source databases - Interbase and PostgreSQL. With this in mind, I'm > sending this email to both the PostgreSQL an

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-03-02 Thread Meir kriheli
On Friday 02 March 2001 00:23, Shaun Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Meir kriheli wrote: > > I use both of the databases (Interbase 6.01 and PostgreSQL 7.1beta4). > > > > PostgreSQL has more features comapared to Interbase (the procedureal > > language is very robust and there are many datatyp

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-03-01 Thread Mark Charette
From: "Shaun Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The point about Oracle is that it *lets* you do all of those > optimizations, and if you're good at it, it will outperform almost any > other database you throw at it. Trust me on this one. I'm sorry, I can't trust you very much on this. Having worked a

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-03-01 Thread Shaun Thomas
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Meir kriheli wrote: > I use both of the databases (Interbase 6.01 and PostgreSQL 7.1beta4). > > PostgreSQL has more features comapared to Interbase (the procedureal language > is very robust and there are many datatyps to choose from. Also you can have > some kind of object su

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-03-01 Thread Meir kriheli
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 06:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Arnold Gamboa wrote: > > I hve heard a great deal about InterBase. Please comment on which is > > better: > > > > 1. Speed > > 2. Data Reliability > > 3. Compatibility with PHP > > > > Thanks for your comments. > > > > -- > > 1. I

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-02-27 Thread mwaples
Arnold Gamboa wrote: > > I hve heard a great deal about InterBase. Please comment on which is > better: > > 1. Speed > 2. Data Reliability > 3. Compatibility with PHP > > Thanks for your comments. > > -- 1. I think Postgresql 2 and 3 I can't say which is better. Both seem to work ok - you

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-02-27 Thread Martin A. Marques
Mensaje citado por: Ron Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know this isn't one of the databases that you;re inquiring about, but > we've been using MySQL (www.mysql.com) and it has been working > beautifully. > We have an email server with a MySQL db that's about 4 Gigs now a it's > still running str

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-02-27 Thread Ron Wills
I know this isn't one of the databases that you;re inquiring about, but we've been using MySQL (www.mysql.com) and it has been working beautifully. We have an email server with a MySQL db that's about 4 Gigs now a it's still running strong. MySQL is free and might be worth looking into :-) Arnold

Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL vs InterBase

2001-02-27 Thread Wade Halsey
Hi We have been using Interbase for all our php development and have not experienced problems. The oprational database is 4gigs and if we execute large queries on it we recieve sub-second responses so speed is definetly not a problem Interbase is a good way to go if you have need for a relationa