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From: M.Jones@massey.ac.nz (Michael Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: PC database
Keywords: PICK, Revelation
Message-ID: <148cs-sund@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 10 Oct 89 21:38:03 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, Massey Univ, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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In article <3848@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> connelly@deimos.cis.ksu.edu
(Paul Connelly) writes:
>How about "Revelations"? does anybody have any information on this?
>It's supposed to be a DBMS for PC's.

Are you talking about 'Advanced Revelation'? It is a database which is
modelled closely on the PICK operating system with extra window painting
faetures, report writers, etc. I have used it a bit and quite like it
(although I'm probably biased as I've worked on PICK systems for a couple
of years). Version 1.0 is pretty buggy and has a lot of loose ends (like
using the 'message' routine). It is pretty slow so isn't suitable for
high-volumes of transactions. It's main strengths are the speed with
which applications can be developed, and the flexibility of applications.

To compare speed with PICK I partioned my disk and installed the PICK
operating system and ran a couple of similar applications on Revelation
and PICK. As expected, PICK was magnitudes faster (sorry, didn't do any
benchmarks).

- Mike

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