Databases

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:47:21PM -0500, Gary Layng wrote:
> A somewhat esoteric seeming question about PostgreSQL  and Firebird database 
> programs, but: is one preferable over the other?  The only thing I know about 
> them is that they're both open source database programs.
> 
> I'm giving Quasar a try. ?It's a newly open-sourced accounting program created 
> by this Calgary company. ?The earlier, "OK to use on a single computer" 
> non-open-source licence version was no biggie for setup and etc., but the new 
> version is demanding either one of these database programs (or Sybase, which 
> is proprietary, and therefore if possible to be avoided...), and the only 
> database program I have is mySQL.

Well at least postgresql is in use by many people.  Never heard of
firebird.  I wonder if it is something at the level of MS Access.
Postgresql is very easy to setup and use in general and has very good
performance.

Lennart Sorensen
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