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From: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Why is Oracle better than Ingres
Message-ID: <142@genco.bungi.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 15:41:27 GMT
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Reply-To: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
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In article <734@keele.keele.ac.uk> csb19@seq1.kl.ac.uk (K. Allen) writes:
>Could someone outline the major differences between Oracle and Ingres.
>Please state if you are using the commercial or university versions
>of Ingres.
>

I work with Oracle, not Ingres but know someone using Ingres.  Oracle 
recovers very well from crashes where I hear Ingres can completely
crash the database if the system crashes.

Ingres seems to be more 'developer' friendly than Oracle's SQL Forms 3.0.
If you are developing entirely in C and not using a front end, Oracle is a
very nice database engine.  I give Oracle's database engine an 'A'. SQL Forms
3.0 isn't entirely bad depending on the application your writing.  I've
worked with better front ends though (4th Dimension on Mac).