From: Martijn Tonies Date: June 10 2005 10:09am Subject: Open source DBMS evaluation study List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/185303 Message-Id: <02da01c56da4$6e5f9870$3802a8c0@martijnws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those interested, this makes a good read. http://www.fabalabs.org/research/papers/FabalabsResearchPaper-OSDBMS-Eval.pdf "The "Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing" (http://www.faw.at) > in cooperation with "Fabalabs Software GmbH" > (http://www.fabalabs.org) have made a new Open Source DBMS evaluation > document available, comparing Firebird 1.5.2, Ingres r3 3.0.1, MaxDB > 7.5.0.23, MySQL 4.1.10 and PostgreSQL 8.0.1 in different areas. " With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, Oracle & MS SQL Server Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com