Re: [cobalt-users] oracle

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/21/00 2:55 PM, Paul Schreiber at cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> --- Chris Bledsoe <cbledsoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There is a reason that oracle is expensive and others are free.
>> 
>> Oracle is extremely powerful and nothing can compare. It merely
>> comes down to purpose and need.
> 
> please trim quoted text when reply. argh. argh. argh.
> 
> oracle is very powerful, has a fabulous kernel, can handle lots of users, has
> lots of neat high-end features, et cetera
> 
> however, its tools suck. sqlplus isn't half as nice as mysql's client; oracle
> is also much more complicated to install and configure.
> 
> for most people, oracle is probably overkill.

I second his opinion... MySQL is probably your best choice for small to
medium sized databases.  Getting up into the enterprise sized databases
you'll want to start looking to Oracle and DB2.

MySQL is good enough for any possible database you'd be running on a Raq,
*especially* one of the MIPS based ones.

-k