[ale] So many choices....

[Silveira, Damien]

I have only used PostgreSQL, but I was thoroughly impressed with the
performance of it.  I am having trouble getting my current Linux box
built, but when I do, I will be reinstalling PostgreSQL.  I have not
used the GUI front end, but have heard good things about it as well.  

-----Original Message-----
 From: Chris Ricker [mailto:kaboom at gatech.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:44 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] So many choices....


Hi all,

I'm starting to amass a large amount of data, and I'd like to create a
db to
hold it since my current solution of papers stuffed in lab notebooks
doesn't
really scale ;-).  The size probably won't get that insane--maybe 900
rows,
600 columns, each cell ~500 chars for the main table.

The relationships between my data points aren't that complex, so I don't
need ACEDB or anything like that.  I'm mainly just planning on storing
the
data, obviously, and then doing the usual PHP -> web with some of it, so
I
was thinking either MySQL or PostgresQL.  Anyone want to comment on the
relative merits of those two (ie, why I would choose one over the
other)?
Any other suggestions?

thanks,
chris

-- 
Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah
.edu