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    Franz Klein
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    What is the best/most commonly used opensource database for Linux? I want to create a database application and want to make use of a commonly used database or is there something like ODBC for Linux? :)

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      What is the best/most commonly used opensource database for Linux? I want to create a database application and want to make use of a commonly used database or is there something like ODBC for Linux? :)

      I am the handsome one in the crowd.

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      Tomas Brennan
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      Good morning to you, :) Two open source databases that comes into mind here... MySql [^] if you want to develop a Client/Server architecture. SqlLite [^] if you want a simple database (SQL dialect, transactions etc) that you can lug around with your application. By the way, SqlLite is in the public domain as well! Cheers, Tom :cool:

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        What is the best/most commonly used opensource database for Linux? I want to create a database application and want to make use of a commonly used database or is there something like ODBC for Linux? :)

        I am the handsome one in the crowd.

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        i would have said mysql for sure up until oracle bought them ... now i am migrating to postgres and would advise you to start there odbc is available but what are you trying to write? a desktop app? a web app? most web languages have native db access layers built in, as do a lot of desktop app libraries and languages hth

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          i would have said mysql for sure up until oracle bought them ... now i am migrating to postgres and would advise you to start there odbc is available but what are you trying to write? a desktop app? a web app? most web languages have native db access layers built in, as do a lot of desktop app libraries and languages hth

          "mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"

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          A Qt desktop app that will need access to a database

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            A Qt desktop app that will need access to a database

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            http://chaos.troll.no/~tavestbo/webkit/domapi/database.html[^] see here the Qt Database classes support all the common db engines natively ;)

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              A Qt desktop app that will need access to a database

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              Neville Franks
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              SQLIte should be a perfect fit. It is small, fast and well supported.

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                What is the best/most commonly used opensource database for Linux? I want to create a database application and want to make use of a commonly used database or is there something like ODBC for Linux? :)

                I am the handsome one in the crowd.

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                Jerry Evans
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                How much of what kind of data? If you have a very simple set of tables with small quantities of data then SQLite is ok. It is certainly small and easy to install :) For anything remotely sophisticated use Postgres.

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