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From: finnegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Greg Finnegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inside Out Database Engine
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.175838.29631@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 23 Nov 90 17:58:38 GMT
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InsideOut is only useful if you're willing to invest some time
programming in C or Pascal or... (unlike 4D, which comes with its
own environment).  If you choose to do so, I think you will be
very pleased - I have not seen anything as easy and robust as
InsideOut on the Mac or PC (dbVista is rumored to be losing
its support in the Mac market, c-tree is ok, but needs more
work; b-tree manager (or whatever it is called) I haven't
seen, but I assume it is low-level like c-tree.)

The multi-user capabilities are great. Data integrety functions
are available (but no transaction logging or rollback). Speed
is pretty good (we average about 1sec. per write on a MacII class
machine - 250 byte record with a couple 10K handles and about 6 keys) and
millisecond read times (the times degrade somewhat with more than
about 5 users in our application - but it has not been a big concern).

Tech support is great! Sierra is committed to upgrades. Give them
a call at 800-621-0631 and I'm sure they'd be willing to discuss any
concerns you might have.

Greg.

[I have no connection with Shana or Sierra Software Innovations. I'm
just a happy customer who is about to ship a product next week...
hopefully (cross your fingers and say a prayer facing Cupertino :-) ]


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