From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-07-27T02:25:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18580] Re: Which database should I use?

Urban Hafner wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a program that needs a database to store some data (actually a large
> amount of data so I don't want to write a database class in Ruby for it).

How large?

> My problem is that postgres isn't working on my machine and mysql-ruby isn't
> working (I think because I'm using 3.22.32).

I am sure that both would work on your system.
Which Linux do you have? SuSe?

> As I do not know much about databases I'd like to get some suggestions which
> database to use (Note: I'm using Linux). 

There's not much left which is open source and free.
You could try InterBase (or FireBird).


Regards,

  Michael

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