php-db | 2001041

RE: [PHP-DB] Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL From: Andrew Hill (ahill <email protected>)
Date: 04/05/01

You may also want to explore Virtuoso http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/

It has all the Enterprise database features that Florian mentions, installs
in a very small footprint, and is significantly lower priced (free for a 2
user connection).

Best regards,
Andrew
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Andrew Hill - OpenLink Software
Director Technology Evangelism
Universal Data Access Integration
http://www.openlinksw.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Clever [mailto:clever <email protected>]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:07 AM
> To: php-db <email protected>; maute001 <email protected>
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have used Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, ADABAS and MS Access.
>
> For small projects my preference is MySQL with PHP on *nix and MS Access
> with ASP on Win32.
>
> For more complex projects requiring complicated calculations or projects
> with a lot of data Oracle is the best choice, because it is the most
> powerfull and flexible. However if it is too expensive choose MSSQL or
> ADABAS depending on which plattform you use.
>
> I enjoy working with Oracle the most, because you can do really cool
> things. Load Java objects as stored procedures, have stored procedures
> return cursors etc and the best of all you can basically come up with
> any kind of usefull SQL statement and it will work. That is not the case
> with the others.
>
> So in case licensing is not an issue and you have Oracle DBAs, thus you
> do not have to worry about administration, which is not exactly trivial,
> choose Oracle.
>
> Florian
>
> >Hey,
> >
> >Has anyone tried out all three of these DBMS packages and evaluated them?
> >I was wondering what everyone is having the best luck with when writing
> >PHP scripts.
> >
> >I'm using Oracle8i and if you don't mind, it's a pain in the tail. :-P
> >
> >While I'm asking, let's not limit it to just those three, if anyone is
> >overwhelmingly pleased with something else, name it please! :-)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Brian
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>
> Florian Clever
>
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