Asking for opinion on database for use on Web sites

#1

I am sure that someone will have information on this. I want to put a
membership database on-line so that members of the organization can renew
memberships, join up, edit their information and so forth. The organization
may want to add some shopping capabilities in the future.

This will not be a high-volume application at all.

Is there a consensus of opinion on what application might be most suitable
for something like this? Any pointers?

TIA

Steve

#2

In article <sV7Za.91420$3o3.6339229 (AT) bgtnsc05-news (DOT) ops.worldnet.att.net>,
serious_practitioner (AT) att (DOT) not says...

Quote:

I am sure that someone will have information on this. I want to put a
membership database on-line so that members of the organization can renew
memberships, join up, edit their information and so forth. The organization
may want to add some shopping capabilities in the future.

This will not be a high-volume application at all.

Is there a consensus of opinion on what application might be most suitable
for something like this? Any pointers?

That's a pretty broad request, woefully short on specifics like what
platform you'll be using, what are the skills of the developers, etc.

#3

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when "Serious_Practitioner" <serious_practitioner (AT) att (DOT) not> would write:

Quote:

Yeah, silly of me...too hot here.

Platform can be Windows or Unix. The organization presently has a
Web site hosted by a Unix-based hosting company. We can move that
site to a Windows-based host, if a Windows-based DB solution is most
suitable. We can develop the DB with a Unix-friendly product if that
seems most appropriate. We actually have the skills in our member
base to do the work - we maintain our site and we have an Access DB
in use to help us organize reference materials and
correspondence. We have about 1000 members, some of whom will need
to be renewed annually, some quarterly. We plan to recruit, so we
would want people to be able to sign up online - but initially, if
there were more than 20 hits a day that required the use of the DB,
I'd be very surprised.

The "shopping" would be for souvenir T-shirts and stuff like that; again, no
big volume, just a convenience type thing.

Thanks again...

More than likely just about anything you might try would be likely to
be satisfactory. For that, even MySQL ought to be able to handle the
level of concurrency, assuming that their licensing fees are
compatible with your requirements, and web hosting companies often
throw in access to a MySQL database.

It is highly unlikely that a Windows-based solution is likely to be
more suitable; installing Windows-based database systems is liable to
be a sizable "extra cost" option, and managing them remotely is liable
to be more challenging than is the case for Unix where remote access
is the rule rather than the exception...

For that matter, Perl scripts that store associative arrays in DBM
files ought to be able to cope with the task, and you almost certainly
have an implementation of Perl supporting some combination of
GDBM/SDBM/NDBM/Berkeley DB around on a Unix-based web host. That's
not going to be particularly scalable, but you'd need to scale up a
lot from 1000 members for even that to break down...
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