[Info-vax] Other than Oracle, What MySQL/DBMS options are there for OpenVms?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/25/2019 4:27 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-03-25 kl. 20:37, skrev Denys Beauchemin:
>> Jon was exactly correct, I apologize for not being clearer in my
>> original answer.  Yes, the Postgres client works very well on OpenVMS
>> and allows the application on OpenVMS to have full communication with a
>> Postgres server on any platform that supports it.
>>
>> We are helping customers transform their OpenVMS code from Rdb access to
>> Postgres access and that way the application can remain on OpenVMS for
>> the foreseeable future.
> 
> Why would staying with Rdb be an issue for staying with VMS?
> Apart from the costs, of course.

Cost if often a very important factor in business
decisions.

Besides that and with the caveat of not knowing much about
neither RDB nor PostgreSQL, then I would expect RDB to be
lacking some features among what has become common in
databases within the last 20 years.

If you say that >90% of users do not need those
features, then I will say that you are probably right.

:-)

Arne