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  Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X, Part 2
Subject:   PostgreSQL, Sybase as other alternatives
Date:   2002-11-20 09:13:38
From:   tpherndon
You mention MySQL, FrontBase and OpenBase as alternatives to Oracle. It might be useful for your readers to know that PostgreSQL runs just fine on OS X, and that Sybase has rather recently released a full production version of their latest enterprise database.


These two alternatives also fill the market-space that Oracle is targeting, and both are production-ready, rather than "developers' release". Between PostgreSQL and Sybase, there are some differences in what "production-ready" actually means. Sybase has nice GUI tools to manage the database, while PostgreSQL approaches things from a command-line perspective (SQLGrinder can, IIRC, be used, as can phpPgAdmin, if you NEED a GUI). Replication is not yet built-in to PostgreSQL, but there is a sourceforge project (pgreplicator.sourceforge.net) that looks like it addresses this need.


In all, with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase and Oracle addressing various levels of the UNIX-powered database niche, Mac OS X has a lot of database choices available.