Re: [Biodevelopers] RDBMS and Bioinformatics
Dan Bolser <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Titus Brown wrote: > -> Hi, I would like to know if RDBMS (Relational Data > -> Base Management Systems) is extensively used in > -> Bioinformatics Data Bases. If it indeed true, what is > -> the most suited RDBMS, Oracle? > > I believe that NCBI uses SQLserver for some things, and MySQL has > been used by several of the public projects (ENSEMBL, for one). > I use PostgreSQL because of it's support for an object/relational > data model. > > I don't know of a project using Oracle but there must be some out there. MSD > > I'm not sure what distinguishes one database as being better for > bioinformatics as a whole; it depends an awful lot on what you're > doing... > > --titus > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > [email protected] > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > _______________________________________________ Bioclusters maillist - [email protected] https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters