[Zope] A Suitable RDBMS?

[Bill Anderson]

Hung Jung Lu wrote:
> 
> "daniel fairs" <danfair-@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I saw a posting today that MySQL was not recommended as an RDBMS for use
> >with Zope. I'd like to use and external database for storing customers'
> >price lists and product galleries; what (preferably free :) database would
> >people recommend? What are the pros and cons of each?
> 
> My experience with SyBase is that the adapter development is
> kind of slow, and only Linux platform is supported. And
> currently it has some glitches with some data types (decimal
> with 10 or more digits), it does not support stored procedures,
> and the implementation in Zope 2.1.4 crashes when you have
> date fields ending between 59 and 60 seconds (e.g: 59.23 sec).
> Also, when there is database problem, the adapter very often
> just hangs and lock the database out, requiring a Zope reboot.

Can you provide more specific detials? I am running two seperate systems
with Sybase, one of which is pounded on pretty hard, with zero problems.




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