Re: [cobalt-users] databases on the RAQ4

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Joe - Just For Fun" <joe.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have recently began using a Cobalt RAQ4.
>
> Can anybody suggest a database system that we can use with this?  Should I
> use MySQL (which we now have installed), the Interbase 6 that comes
> pre-installed, or a Microsoft Access database?

MySQL is widely used by owners of RaQ servers.  It's especially fast at
doing database reads and there's a lot of open source and commercial
software that's compatible with it.  PostgreSQL is already installed on your
RaQ4.  It's more feature-rich than MySQL, but is not as fast as MySQL at
doing database reads.  However it can do triggers, subselects, etc. that
MySQL cannot yet do.  I don't have any firtsthand experience with Interbase,
but b/c a much lower percentage of software is compatible with it than MySQL
and PostgreSQL it may not be a good choice.  Access cannot run natively on a
Linux server so you would need a separate Windows server running Access and
would have to interface with it from your RaQ4 using ASP or ODBC through
most other programming languages.

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