[cvsnt] Re: Audit database selection

[Andy Southby]

Thanks Tony,

I think the free version of DB2 sound like what I need, shame I could not 
stay with open source though. My company has not used version control before 
and I have been trying for two years to perswade them away from the dark 
side. :)  Now I have, I have no budget! So untill convinced by the results 
it will have to be free all the way.

Thanks for a great product by the way. I have used PVCS and SourceSafe in 
the past and can definatly say I'm glad I was forced into looking for a free 
alternative.

Andy.

"Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in message 
news:dsa4go$gc$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Andy Southby wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply Tony,
>>
>> I could always use MySQL for bugzilla and another for CVSNT.
>>
>> Talking specifically of CVSNT 2.5.03.x auditing and future 2.6.x.x use, 
>> I see my choices as MSDE, SQLite and PostgreSQL. I will be catering for 
>> 50 concurrent users and a potential repository growth of 10GB in the 
>> first year (using the current file system architecture).
>
> I just added DB2 support in the last build.
>
>> Are there any limitations of these databases that I should be 
>> considering?
>> Is one easy to configure?
>
> SQLite is extremely easy to setup, but doesn't handle concurrency as well 
> (only one writer to the database at a time AFAIK).
>
> MSDE is also fairly easy, but has a 2GB limit (artificial limit - 
> SQLServer has no such issues.. if you have an MSDN sub you may well have a 
> copy around somewhere).
>
> Not sure about postgres... it had issues with a dodgy installer for a 
> while and I need to go back to it if they've now fixed it (which I believe 
> was planned).
>
> DB2 free edition has no limits apparently (easy to setup too).
>
> Tony