Database choice for large data volume?

Question

I\'m about to start a new project which should have a rather large database.

The number of tables will not be large (<15), majority of data (99%) will be contain

Answer 1

We use Firebird for a really huge database (keeping data for more than 30 years now) and it scales very well.

The best about it is that you have properties to configure, but unlike i.e. Oracle you install it and it works very well without the need to start configuring before you can use it.