Open Source Ingres for Linux

[Francois Ouellette]

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Park" <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 March, 2005 18:39
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Open Source Ingres for Linux
>
> Throwing my thought into the mix... I looked at Ingres API, since that's
> the only thing about database I'm interested in.  It really looked like
> 15 years old.  Going by API alone, PostgreSQL and SQLite were easy to
> read, understand, and to code.  MySQL was a bit more complicated than it
> should.

You are right, some of these application-development tools are from the
1980's, however the kit also comes with
a API for C/C++ and pre-compilers for C/C++ and also a few 3GL languages.
Also a JDBC connectivity tool.
One could easily develop applications using a X-based front-end and Ingres
as a database.
The PDF library contains a developer's guide for the API and all other
tools.

Ingres is indeed new on Linux but was originally developed on Solaris and
OpenVMS, so it is all written
in C and it is fairly easy to use it from almost any programming language,
or using a ODBC from other software front-ends.

  François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>



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