Re: [Clockwork-developers] Architecture of job scheduler

[Shawn D. <sd...@cf...>]

I think we can easily accommodate the DB functionality we need by using very
generic SQL commands that would be compatible with most SQL DBs.  We should
have a primary DB that we will use for most of our development and testing.
My personal preference is Postgres because I'm more familiar with it and
because of its reputation for better data integrity.  We'll also need to
have access to other major DBs so we could do regression testing to ensure
compatibility, but I think we can manage that fairly easily, at least for
Oracle, Sybase, and MySQL.

Shawn


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Loudermilk" <jo...@lo...>
To: <clo...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Clockwork-developers] Architecture of job scheduler


>
> +- On Friday (1/11/2002 14:18) Shawn McMahon <smc...@ei...> Wrote-
> | I think we have to do a free one if we do one at all, because we're a
> | free project.  We're cutting our own throats if the scheduler is free
> | but you have to pay Oracle $100k if you want to use it.  I agree that we
> | can't support every database, at least not in the beginning.
>
> I agree. Regardless of how many database platforms we support, at least
> one of them should be free.
>
> One reason I think we should support multiple platforms is that I can see
> a user who decides not to use our product, because he's got dozens of
> Oracle servers and could easily accomodate another couple of databases
> on them, but we would require him to run MySQL, or Sybase, or something
else.
>
> That's something that always irritated me about Bugzilla. It's a great
> tool, but you can only use MySQL. They even wrote the thing in Perl and
> use DBI, so you'd think you could use any platform, but they then went
> and used features specific to MySQL (like enum data types and some other
> stuff).
>
> I think people are about as picky about their favorite database platform
> as they are about their favorite UNIX. So why make a program that runs on
> anyone's favorite UNIX, but only one database?
>
> --
> Joel
>
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