Mac Database Technology And Programming

[ohmelas]

This is a high level question dealing not with the technologies available to a programmer (I have them all: RealBasic, Cocoa, Web Objects and Metroworks).

I'm new to programming on a Mac. Recently lost my virginity on programming on a Mac this week-end. Hello World, here I am.

Okay so here I go:

Where can I find real powerful Database resources for Mac? I've decided that I want to be a god in database programming on the Mac.

It seems to be a market that no one is in?

Enough Said, Mac OSX Poweruser Programmers. Lay it on me. Where are these mysterious resources and how about a veritble host of how-to's and why-nots. I need those mostly to convert myself to the lingo quickly.

If they don't exist I suppose I'll have to resort to learning it the hard way and then make something myself--any Macromedia Director or something?

Let's talk and write a business plan and make this marketable.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help here.

P.S. I'm partial allready to MySQL (It's portable on any platform) but tell me more of 4D and the others.

[wyvern]

I'm not a DB programmer but I'd stick with MySQL. If large organizations and small sites alike are fond of PostgreSQL and MySQL, why not you? Platform specific is definitely a bad thing with databases.

[ohmelas]

What other database products are out there for the Mac. How about a list and their web sights?

[wyvern]

How about Google?

[rhg]

OS X has the iODBC driver manager integrated. This allows to use any database which provides an ODBC driver. However, it currently lacks unicode support so it cannot be used in all environments. I heard some time ago that Apple is working on it.

[ohmelas]

I found a great starting point:

http://www.macreviewzone.com/html/re...preadsheet.php

[callieX]

You can get the devel version of oracle 9i for oSX from oracle's website.

calliex

[ohmelas]

Are there any preferences out there? I guess that's another starting point. I know that in my Information Technology Circ. at school they are heavily biased towards Microsoft products. Although, some of their prodcuts are great and functional I don't believe they represent a majority of business solutions. Oracle does come to mind in all of these categories. Have most Database Applications gone to the Web Based Client Server Solutions or are there others still? Please advise.