Advice on Relational Database

1 points by Legendslayer 10y ago ↗ HN

Good afternoon everyone! As a CS student I have to choose a database to work with for my final project. So my options are Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Which one will you choose and why. Pricing is not an issue because for students it's free. Have a nice day !

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ape-box 10y ago ↗

PostgreSQL for quality Oracle for Curriculum

lsiunsuex 10y ago ↗

What language will you be writing in? Not all languages can access all databases.

Legendslayer 10y ago ↗

Java.

davelnewton 10y ago ↗

What are you doing with the DB? There's no reasonable way to make a blanket recommendation w/o knowing what your needs or goals are.

So use PG.

Legendslayer 10y ago ↗

It will be a full system for an online store for weapons. So I have to choose a DB, back-end which will be Java and front-end which I have no idea yet. Angular,React...

davelnewton 10y ago ↗

I don't see how it even matters from a technical standpoint.