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From: cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Databases - performance vs. price
Keywords: performance price
Message-ID: <1554@unccvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 89 18:37:46 GMT
Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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Currently there are multi-user database packages that are in the 5 digit range.
I have seen single-user  packages for almost  nothing.  It seems to me that any
decent programmer could come out with a DBMS that is comparable to the 5 $digit
multiuser DBMS (using  single-user algorithms  and a centralized DBMS process). 

Why has this not been done? I plan on attempting this feat soon. It seems to me
that using a single, centralized process(using efficient single-user algorithms
to manipulate the data) to communicate  with client processes via  IPC could be
done by one programmer.

Whatcha think?