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Free or low cost database for commercial use

 
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Hello!

Does anyone know about a database that is free even for commercial use? Low cost alternatives are also interesting if these alternatives support transactions and the like.

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Benny B
[ October 05, 2004: Message edited by: Benny Brown ]
 
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Give a try to IBM Cloudscape. I think it has free licesning.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cloudscape/
 
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1. hsqldb - 100% Java Database

2. McKoi database

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MZ
 
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PostgreSQL is the BEST open source datsbase.
 
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Hello.

Thank you for your quick answers guys

Benny
 
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