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From: bander@cs.odu.edu (Jim Bander)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: UNIX DBMS information needed
Keywords: UNIX DBMS UNIFY INFORMIX INGRES ORACLE C-TREE SPEED
Message-ID: <10186@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 22:26:44 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.
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I am about to begin development of a system written in C that must handle a 
large amount of data.  I am aware of a number of DBMS systems for UNIX--
Unify, Informix, Ingres, Oracle, C-Tree, etc.

I need to pick one that will work well on a 386 running AT&T Unix V.  The
most important objective is transaction speed (for query transactions),
followed closely by ease of programming (by professional C programmers), 
then speed for update transactions.

Can anyone offer advice on making such a selection?  Are there any recent 
benchhmarks I should read about?
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