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From: mdiamond@triton.dpl.scg.hac.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Sybase vs. Ingres
Keywords: sybase, ingres
Message-ID: <10939@hacgate.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:46:10 GMT
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Reply-To: mdiamond@luna.hac.com (Mark Diamond)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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Hi,

I'm posting this for Steve Pappas who works for the AQMD in Los Angeles.
The AQMD is the Air Quality Management District which spans 4 counties
and is concerned with: what else? the air quality (or lack thereof) in
the LA metropolitan area.

His dilemma is that he needs to choose the "best" dbms to power a
new project with the following requirements:
  Hardware:   HP or DG
  OS:         un*x
  Users:   	  300
  Concurrent 
  Xactions:   75

Another requirement is that he needs to be able to manage image data in
a convenient way (blobs of data > 2K).

Steve told me that he has already ruled out Oracle, Informix and other
c/s dbms's for various reasons.  I would like to limit this 
discussion to the pros and cons of the 2 dbms's previously mentioned,
(Sybase,Ingres) if possible, but would like to hear from other dbms 
users with strong opinions about their system.

Please respond by email - Steve will summarize and I will post his
summary.

Thanks!
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