[Bioperl-l] Bioperl general question

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Kim,

Any standards compliant database is usable. Under unix most projects use 
MySQL or PostreSQL if they want to distribute their databases freely. If the 
institutes have the money and inclination to have proper central management 
of databases, they usually use ORACLE or Sybase.

The main thing for perl is that there is a module for the database that 
plugs it into DBI (Perl DataBase Interface) module. Most commonly used 
databases do. Check man pages for DBI and DBI::FAQ.

MySQL has the fastest database to retrieve data, which is important in large 
projects, although someone recently claimed that the recent versions of 
PostreSQL are as fast.


This all is from UNIX/Linux point of view. I do not konw too much about 
Windows excapt ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is more important there.
Again check man DBI::FAQ

	-Heikki

Earl Kim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not sure if this is off-topic/appropriate for this list, but which
> databases have people found beneficial for large-scale data storage of
> bioinformatic related data?  Are there any specific DB's for which the
> perl modules are more mature than the rest? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Earl
> 
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