Effective, cheap databases

Databases
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I am working with a friend who is a webdeveloper on getting a site up and running. My original plan was to have it include some comprehensive search functions that synced up to get results. However, he has told me that getting such a database system started will cost upwards of $15,000. He then told me that the alternative (and much cheaper) option is to have a maximum of ten pages of filtered results that won’t sync up the information. He said it would have to be a max of 10 pages, so that the search results didn’t take a painfully long time to load up each page.

My question is: is this the only option available to me? I really want to start something great that is user-friendly and would be willing to download a database system. My budget for a database would be a couple of hundred dollars - are there any available out there that I can use to bring up refined search results?

Apologies my terminology isn’t as advanced as the majority of the users on this site!

I look forward to hearing either some interesting suggestions, or to knowing with 100% certainty that I need to forego my original concept.

Thanks,
Natduck

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what does “synced up” mean here?

also, how does getting 10 pages of “filtered results” that “won’t sync” help?

you suggested downloading a database system – are you aware that many of them are free?

for example, mysql, postgresql, sql server express, etc.

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For search you might want to check out solr – it isn’t a traditional database, but it is a pretty effective information retrieval product. Also free.

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If your friend is suggesting $15,000 to set up a database, I would question his qualifications.

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heck no, tell him I’ll do it for $10,000 :slight_smile:

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