Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ncar!boulder!ub!canisius!pavlov
From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Datafit anyone ??
Keywords: Database,datafit
Message-ID: <2902@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 12:56:54 GMT
References: <aviv.654215258@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <aviv.654215258@techunix.technion.ac.il>, aviv@techunix.BITNET (Aviv Siegel) writes:
> 
>         The company I work for, is looking for a 4GL database tool for
> BIG development process (about 40,000+ records, 16M estimated data).
> We look for a tool which will work on DOS, Unix and maybe OS/2 platforms.
> The RUN time module mustn't cost much (it should be installed by a lot
> of customers ...), this reason blew out Oracle, for example.
> We wish for a multi-lingual support (hebrew/english), and an easy exit to
> assembly or C routines.

  Given the size of your application,  I think that most of the DBMS's designed
  for multi-user platforms should be able to handle things.

  If your criterion that the run-time module has to be inexpensive is an impor-
  tant one, you may want to look at INGRES since DEC now bundles run-time INGRES
  with ULTRIX.  Assuming (since you mention DOS) that many of the platforms on
  which your application will run will not have to be large,  the lower-end DEC
  RISC-based machines would probably handle things reasonably well.  The DEC
  2100, for instance, has performance that should at worst equal a 33 MHZ 80386-
  based system and will be cost-competitive with it.

  Two caveats:

   1. DEC does NOT call its bundled runtime engine "INGRES".  Whether compati-
      bility will be maintained in the future is unknown;
   2. our own experience with version 6 INGRES on ULTRIX platforms indicates
      that it is still in raw form.  E.g., barely passable as a "production"
      system.

  If you do need to run on `386 platforms, you may also want to take a look at
  SCO's Open Desktop product.  This consists of a bundle of software, including
  UNIX 5 and INGRES.  I believe that the runtime version of this is reasoanable
  - considering what is included - tho it may have much more than you need.

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny