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From: uuvince@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Vince Scullin)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Relational DBMS for UNIX workstation
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.203854.2724@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Nov 90 20:38:54 GMT
Reply-To: uuvince@venus.lerc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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I am looking for a relational database package to use as part of a project to
tailor a UNIX workstation for experimental data analysis and visualization.
I will be dealing with databases of up to 4 or 5 Mbytes in size. I hope to
find a package with a vector, array, or blob datatype because the database
records can consist of up to 10K words and I don't want or need to name them
all as individual fields. I prefer to use a programmatic interface (preferably
FORTRAN) to load the databases and to interface to specialized applications
programs. I have received some sales literature about
     * Techra               * TECHBASE              * TekBase
       Kvatro A/S             Minesoft, Ltd.          Leading Technology
       Trondheim, Norway      Denver, Colorado        London, England
I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has had experience with any of these
database products. The workstation for this project will be a Sun Sparcstation
1+ . I would also be interested in suggestions of other database products
which might be applicable.

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|   Vince Scullin                        |  Never attribute to malice that     |
|   Scientific Data Applications Branch  |  which can be adequately explained  |
|   NASA Lewis Research Center           |  by ignorance.                      |
|   Cleveland, Ohio 44135         uuvince@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Vince Scullin)  |
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