I know that vbulletin officially only supports MySQL at this time. But I cant find anywhere that says you absolutely cant use any other database. Has anyone attempted to tie it to an Oracle database? I ask because we are running Oracle 9i here and dont want to have to support 2 different databases if we dont have to.
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There is no reason you couldn't use it with another database, with one caveat: you would have to rewrite most of vBulletin to use the other database's specific little quirks in the query language. In addition if it is to really take advantage of the other database you'd need to rewrite the queries for optimization in that DB, especially if you are using something like Oracle.
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Originally posted by The Prohacker
There are very few reasons you'd need to switch to Oracle.... MySQL when setup properly, can handle the stress just fine...
Really, if you want an Oracle solution, hire programmer and have your own forum made, in many cases, it will be cheaper than making vB work on Oracle......
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Originally posted by The Prohacker
Really, if you want an Oracle solution, hire programmer and have your own forum made, in many cases, it will be cheaper than making vB work on Oracle......
Using Oracle, the PHP code could be reduced significantly for vBulletin. And the precompiled stored procedures and triggers of Oracle could do all the manipulation work.
On a decent Oracle Server, I suspect that vBulletin and PHP could handle 10,000 concurrent users. Something I don't think you will see on MySQL for the next 5 - 10 years.Last edited by Wayne Luke; Sat 26 Jan '02, 6:52am.Translations provided by Google.
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Not strictly true. Making vB work on Oracle is not as hard as you may think. MattR from Fanhome.com made it work on Sybase, and he will probably be willing to offer a bit of advice on using Oracle with it as well. Or he might be willing to modify yours to work on Sybase instead, which is easier.
I think there is no reason against it, since Sybase is free and seems to be a even better database as mysql (from what I heard)
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Well a very old version of Sybase is free for use on Linux machines. A newer version is available for use in development environments on Linux. The newest version has the same licensing prices as Unix and Windows versions.
With that said, vBulletin's Developers are working with MattR to see what we can make available to the public so there is an alternative to MySQL.Translations provided by Google.
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Nice to hear !!
I think even the older versions of Sybase shouldn't be underestimated.
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