[Info-vax] Suggestions for implementation languages/utilities for new database project

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote 2012-01-31 12:23:
> urbancamo wrote 2012-01-31 12:08:
>> I'd like to tap into the comp.os.vms collective wisdom...
>>
>> I'm about to start a new project, a hobbyist project, which will
>> involve an application to provide a query system front end to a
>> database of information. A fairly standard information query
>> application. It will be implemented on a VMS system, either Alpha or
>> Itanium based.
>>
>> I'd like recommendations of languages and databases that people have
>> had good experience with in the past, from a VMS-hosted perspective.
>> I'm a Java programmer by trade, so a traditional web-based front end
>> with Java based business logic and either a MySQL or Oracle database
>> would be first choice, but I'm interested in alternatives that
>> developers have had good experience with.
>>
>> I'm more interested in a productive development environment, so for
>> example any technologies that speed database integration with business
>> logic. I'm happy to consider mature VMS-centric technologies if they
>> provide a good level of productivity.
>>
>> Thanks, Mark.
>
> Professional/hobby environment?
> Expected traffic volume?
> Number and complexity of web-pages?
>
> For quick up-n-running, WASD server, Python scripting with MySQL
> database backend.
>
> http://wasd.vsm.com.au/
> http://www.vmspython.org/
> http://www.vmsmysql.org/
>
> Jan-Erik.

Sorry! Missed the line "a hobbyist project" in your post...

If I'm not wrong, you are also allowed to run Rdb as a hobbyist.
Way better DBMS then MySQL, IMHO... :-)