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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
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Subject: Re: db_VISTA III -vs- Relational DBMS'
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Date: 24 Jul 90 06:57:27 GMT
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In article <15660@s.ms.uky.edu> ericd@ms.uky.edu (Eric B. Durbin) writes:
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>We chose db_VISTA for the following reasons:

I concur wholeheartedly.


It's flexible and very easy to use, it doesn't cost anything to use it
in our products. The source code is clean and easy to understand (and
modify if need be).

But the overriding factor is just how fast it is. We compared it to
other databases (Oracle, Informix, ...) and there was simply no
comparison. I'm absolutely sold on Vista.




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