PostgreSQL

In my previous post I indicated that I am using Ruby on Rails and JRuby for my new blogging tool. As underlying database I have decided to go with the Rails default: SQLite. SQLite has the advantage that it is an embeddable database, so you don’t need a separate database server to use it (which is very convenient when developing software). Note that when you are using JRuby you can also use Apache Derby (which is an embeddable database written in Java) instead of SQLite if you want to. Read the rest of this entry »