Checkout Firebird as well - which appears to be the other alternative.
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php
q: How does open source affect the costs for companies which use
Interbase or Firebird as an embedded server?
a: Firebird server and client are free of all licensing fees,
regardless of whether you download a binary or build it yourself from
the source code.
I agree that mySQL is too limited for serious use.
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:50:17 -0800, "Marshall Spight"
<marshall@meetstheeye.com> wrote:
> "Richard Chrenko" <richard@solarenergy.ch> wrote in message news:3C8EF7D7.1003ECC3@solarenergy.ch...
> >
> > MySQL looks like it's free until you want to bundle it with a commercial
> > application, at which time license fees are required. What is the
> > situation with PostgreSQL?
>
> That's not why you want to avoid MySQL. You want to avoid MySQL
> because it's underpowered. No transactions, no foreign keys, no subselects,
> etc. etc.
>
>
> > Given that we have a Java application and don't have the manpower to
> > port a DBMS, what are the platforms on which PostgreSQL is currently
> > stable?
>
> I think the short answer is "all of them." It runs great on Windows (under cygwin)
> and many unix and linux.
>
> Try it out.
>
>
> Marshall
>
>
