[Asterisk-Users] OT: Best DB

Adam Goryachev mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au
Wed Mar 9 18:40:10 MST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:02 -0600, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:43 -0500, list at ipmotel.net wrote:
> > For some reason I didn't think PostgreSQL was for mission critical apps.  I 
> > don't think I have any reasoning behind it, just didn't think it was 
> > "hardcore"...sounds like i might be wrong...i'll have to look into it more.
> > 
> > Open source advantages are obvious, but aside from licensing and cost 
> > factors, I believe speed, security, and stability are going to be the key 
> > factors for us, whether open source or not.
> 
> Postgres is probably more developed than mysql. Mysql gets a lot of
> press though as being an easy to install and config database. As for
> stability/scalability, the .org registry is on postgres.

Yesterday, for the first time, a customer pointed out this database:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

Has anyone had any experience with it, and could compare it to either
mysql/postgres?

Thanks,
Adam




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