Which Database to use?

Hi!
Im developing a financial trading platform, and after some trouble im considering using a database for storing my backups.

Untill now i've been using binnary files and a direct access algorithm to get the position of the data directly, but as the development continues, it's getting harder and harder to use it, and using a database would really help the development process, but probably would also degrade performance.

So im trying to figure out what database technology to use.
Budget is not a problem, so im open to sugestions.

My main concern is performance.
Each of my files store 2 columns and aproximately 550.000-600.000 rows.
Until now there are about 50 files like that, so 30.000.000 records and growing fast.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
JCC

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http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...61#post1420361

Hi all

You have to manage a big quantity of data, which will grow up in future.
So I suggest Oracle or SqlServer; probably the best choice is SqlServer, because Oracle is a really complex product: I usually work with Oracle, I've never worked with SqlServer, but I think Oracle is harder to manage than SqlServer, so you might use the simpliest product to solve your problem.

Both oracle and sqlserver have "express" editions that are focused on portability and local use rather than multiclient/networkserver architecture