[Tutor] Linux databases

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> > Source but I highly recommend Borland's Interbase. 
> 
> When recommending databases, please specify whether or not they are:
> 1) relational (in the true Codd & Date sense)

Yes, fully relational. Main cometitor has been Informix.

> 2) what part(s) of the ANSI SQL standard it conforms to. 

1992 standard with extensions for stored procedures 
and event handling.

> After all, there's people who think Access is a database.

:-)

> Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Solid

Its in this category. Interbase sells for several hundred 
dollars on NT, Solaris etc but is(was?) free(as in beer) 
on Linux. It's what they ship with Delpi, CBuilder etc.

I use version 5 on NT and 4 on Linux, I think there's a 
v6 too. They "support" Red Hat and Cobolt Servers but 
it does run on other distros. There's a very active 
discussion group on the Borland news site.

Product details:

http://www.borland.com/interbase/

In fact I just checked and v6.5 is now Open Source 
on sourceforge!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/interbase

Interbase is IMHO Borland's best kept secret.

Alan g.