Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:59:04 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
<martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
How do you rate H2 against Derby and HSQL?
For a comparison of PosGreSQL and MySQL see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/postgresql.html
The information is a few years old.
And it ignores the gulf between the license conditions of the two
products. MySQL is GPL but the drivers are not LGPL so you can only
incorporate a MySQL driver into your application and distribute the
MySQL database if your software is open source. Even if you have some
weird objection to open source there is a genuinely, freely
distributable, version of all the commercial heavyweight databases
although they may restrict the number of processors, RAM or disk size.
Why risk contravening MySQL's deliberately confusing license
conditions?