General info about Pervasive wanted

[Patten]

Hello,

I don't know the RDBMS Pervasive.2000 but have seen it is been used by some software companies around. Can somebody give me some information about the product since we are currently thinking of developping a software with a database behind it.
Our requirements are:
- The database should be platform independant (being Windows, Unix, Linux at least).
- It should not be too expensive since the price of our software would be too high just because of the database: does somebody have ideas of the price range of Pervasive?
- The database needs few administration, since our users are typically not IT guys and are not interested in doing IT stuff.
- Does Pervasive supports Stored procedures, row level locking, rollback possibilities, backup-recovery features, is it Ansi compliant and to which extend?

It would be great if somebody has a comparison between Pervasive and for example the big guys like Oracle, SQL Server or DB2,..., or a comparison versus the free databases like MySQL, PostGreSQL etc: advantages, disadvantages versus these RDMS systems.

 

[TomKane]

You should take a look at

http://www.pervasive.com

as they have white papers and case studies on there site you might also look at

http://www.southdown.co.uk.

We use Pervasive and find it to be very reliable.

Best of luck