Hello all,
We are currently using FoxPro and plan to move to a database. Our requirements are:
We are cheap, we cannot spend a lot of $$$
We do not have a real DBA, just me, I'm a Java developer.
We have a lot of data 100's of millions of rows, both big and small with many tables. (A major pain with FoxPro's limitations)
We need 2 way replication. At a minimum we will have 2 servers running in different locations. Our network connection is not ideal (Its, up, its down, its up again ) Users at both ends will be updating/adding data.
Our developers are, java, .Net, and we have a lot of stuff in Visual FoxPro.
Did I mention we do not have a lot of $$$?

Here are the databases we are thinking about, please add if you have sugestions:

MySQL <-- Did not seem to handle the large data set I sent it. When I was in the admin tool looking at a table, sometimes it said there was ~80-70 million reocords. It never gave the same answer twice. No one was editing the data.

SQL Server 2005 <-- Just installed a developer's edition. May not be able to afford it but we do have ppl here with experiance with it. This is our first choice but we need back up plans.

Oracle <-- Cannot afford it.

MaxDB <-- Just installed this to check it out.

Postgres <-- Have used it in the distant past and liked it, never used it with this amount of data. Will it be able to handle it?

I guess my 3 biggest concerns are cost to maintain, large data sets, and a monkey (Me) would need to be able to administer it with little effort.

Thanks in advance,
Richard

Hi -

Try Ingres 9.0.4 it's now open source and free...

Very, Very fast on Linux,
Also runs on Windows,
has replication (we've used it for 9+ years),
(Although we use one-way replication for hot spares.
The hot spare is a couple of milliseconds off the primary
with gigibit fiber across town between them)
easily handles large DBs (we have 200-300 GB DBs)
has good tools Windows based GUI or character based Linux...
(the Windows tools can access the Linux server)

Good Luck
Bill