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From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Databases that runs on FreeBSD
Date: 25 Jan 1997 03:28:51 GMT
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In article <01bc07e0$3e2f7ea0$1000000a@inetgw.aristar.com>,
"Windows Development System" <mgessner@aristar.com> writes:
> Also, mSQL is available (http://hughes.com.au). It's faster than postgres
> (check their FAQ, etc)
Whether it is faster depends a lot on your application. Postgres has
a high startup overhead so it isn't too good for CGI stuff unless you
wire it directly into your server (I think there is an apache module
to do this). On the other hand, if your queries get complex or your
tables get large (I've got tables over 1 million tuples) mSQL's
performance suffers badly.
mSQL is being actively developed so this could, of course, change. :)
-john