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From: ericd@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: db_VISTA III -vs- Relational DBMS'
Summary: Why we decided to use db_VISTA III
Message-ID: <15660@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 13:09:43 GMT
Reply-To: ericd@ms.uky.edu (Eric B. Durbin)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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My group just compared db_VISTA, MDBS_V, Informix, and Ingres on MS-DOS.  We
will be supporting our application under SunOS as well.

We chose db_VISTA for the following reasons:

  Network model is fine for our application.

  C library MUCH better to program in than imbedded language.

  A 4GL might be "powerful" but it isn't as flexible as C with libraries.

  The 4GLs where geared toward their forms interface, again not nearly as
  flexible as a C user interface library.

  db_VISTA can undoubtedly outperform the 4GLs under DOS.

  Technical support has been good.

  Its inexpensive, no run time licenses.

  Its portable to a large number of environments.

  You can get full source.

  It has a reasonable SQL interface.

  It doesn't require a memory resident module in DOS and therefore is not
  a "memory hog".

  Function calls are straightforward and easy to use.

  At least 8 people on the net recommended it highly to me.

... and the list goes on, but these are most of the major factors for us.

Eric

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