Re: SQL engines

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Urban Gabor wrote:
  >Hi,
  >
  >I am to write a home application for Linux that uses an SQL database. I
  >can not decide which library to use, my two ideas are: Postgres and Mysql.
  >Which is the best solution and why? (The database is planned to be about
  >maximal 10-15 Mbyte)

PostgreSQL has more features, especially transactions; Mysql does not have
these and is therefore faster, but less suitable for applications which 
need to guarantee informational integrity.  Look at www.postgresql.org
for more information on PostgreSQL.

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