[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[ChrisQ]

On 04/17/12 19:40, JF Mezei wrote:

>
> I am moving an RMS/All-in-1 application over to my mac using mysql, PHP
> and HTML. And it appears one can set up a mysql datbaase without any
> locking, and some of the indexing seems very primitive (there are
> different indexing engines).
>

I'm getting a web server together at the moment, with mysql server running
on the lab server for the content and old sparc machine for the web end 
running
lighttpd. Looked at various options, but mysql is dead easy to set up, 
seems
to have quite a lot of different db  options, has command line and 
windows based
gui client (mysql workbench) and it's free.

No expert on db systems, and it may not have all the bells and whistles 
of some of
the proprietary offerings, but seems pretty impressive to me. It just 
works...

Regards,

Chris