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Survey and Analysis
A quick view of the Google category Computers ➪ Software ➪ Databases ➪ Open Source reveals five potential candidates:
· Firebird
· GNU SQL
· MySQL
· PostGres
· SAP DB
Development of the GNU SQL database seems to have stalled several years ago, so it will not be considered further. All of the remaining products have large followings and active developer communities. We might expect that we could eliminate some choices based on availability of JDBC drivers: however, all of the databases provide some form of JDBC level 4 JDBC driver support.So with this in mind, we will take a brief look at each of these products.
