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[Nightracer]

What is the fatest free database? Does anyone have any stats to backup the claims? I'm curious because I think that my website may have thousands of entries soon.

What are the free databases anyway, I only know mysql.

[Jimbo]

Dont have any stats, but I would imagine mySql would probably be up there with the fastest, both paid and free

[WingedPanther]

PostGreSQL is another free database: you have two issues you have to deal with. 1) raw speed. 2) scalability: how many people will be hitting it simultaneously? You can have a database that returns queries quickly, but chockes if it gets more than 10 people accessing it at once.

Come to think of it, I think firebird is another free DB. From what I recall, MySQL has scalability problems, but that's knowledge from a year or two ago.

[Lop]

From what I've read, MySQL is the fastest free database. I'm not sure how that adds up but I know it is the most widely used.

[Void]

I don't think it would matter so much unless you had millions of records and accesses a day. I'd stick with MySQL or PostGreSQL.