PostgreSql is good.

I installed PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Beta 4 today. It seems to be good. PostgreSql 7.x requires a simulator to be installed to run on Windows. In MySQL 8.0, it supports Windows directly.

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Http://www.postgresql.org/news/235.html

The JDBC driver can be obtained from:

Http://jdbc.postgresql.org/

Postgresql's JDBC driver seems to be well written and has interfaces specifically for large objects.

 

PostgreSQL itself comes with graphical management tools, which are not very useful, but not too bad. See the following: