Re: Express Edition for Production

From: Matthew Zito <matt_at_crackpotideas.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:44:19 -0400
Message-ID: <CAJ7936xOXc51ZGZ1MoBX9KxPbH7Trkx+BM+=zPHKCiayWO_SKg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Postgres has PostGIS - http://postgis.net/ - which is pretty highly regarded, at least amongst GIS people I know. APEX, though - I guess the closest you'd come is some rapid development framework like Rails.

Personally, I'd *never* base a startup on Oracle - given today's trends for data collection (i.e. more is better), 4GB of data isn't going to get you very far, and then the pricing for Oracle is enough to bankrupt anyone with a decent compute footprint (not to mention licensing terms that are very unfriendly for on-demand compute infrastructure like EC2).

Thanks,
Matt

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> The day Postgres or MySQL comes with APEX and Locator (Spatial subset)
> is the day I'll promote it/them to my #1 choice of free RDBMS. ;-)
>
> Until then, XE includes both, and that's impressive in itself.
> Libraries, VSE book keeping, home records ... and supported by DBVisit
>
> /Hans
>
>

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