What is the best free database software for a ecommerce website?
That depends entirely on – What technology you are using on the frontend (eg aspx, jsp, cfm, php, etc) – How fast you want to develop your site – What special things you need in your site – How scalable you want your site – How distributed your site would be – The type of calculations required on the database backend as opposed to any other tier (web frontend and possibly middle tier business logic for example) In other words, you can’t just ask that kind of question about a database engine because you also need to consider the organic whole application. MySQL and Postgres are probably the leading candidates, but other vendors (even Microsoft!) also have free database engines and often with features MySQL and Postgres don’t have.
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