</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by beb:
<strong>Howdy!
What is the best Mac OS X software for hosting both an online searchable database, and allowing certain users to make changes/additions or deletions to the database.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Depens on what you're looking for !!
You can use MySQL and PostgreSQL which both are free - You get support from onine communities via E-mails, Forums, newsgroups. You aso get the source so in case of problems you can twick it yourself. <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/postgresql" target="_blank">PostGreSQL</a> is superior to <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/mysql" target="_blank">MySQL</a> but, you'll need more time to use:administer it. It's really a more Database like packages. Both can beaccessed trhu php/perl/python/c/c++/Java.
Then You have at least three commercial Options <a href="http://www.4D.com" target="_blank">4D</a>, <a href="http://www.openbase.com" target="_blank">OpenBase</a> and <a href="http://www.frontbase.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/FrontBase" target="_blank">Frontbase</a>
both three offer comercia support when your application goes into production. 4D is the oldest on the Mac , Both others comes from the NeXT world and have been for a longer time in production on macosX like system.
From What I've heard I would not choose Openbase (a friend of friend had his cousin working there, when He left, only 10 persosn where left in the compagny, managment does not know what the product can do, which is bad. Also frontbase was deveoped because of Openbase lacks of things).
Sybase has announced ASE for OS X -
Depending on your budget knowedge, time constraint I would choose frontbase from the commercial ones and postgres from the Free ones. If you think you might one day migrate your database then look at what Sybase has to offer.
Top
