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From: kbc@mdbs.uucp (Kevin Castleberry)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need a DOS database that can do the following:
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.112958.8316@mdbs.uucp>
Date: 25 Jan 91 11:29:58 GMT
References: <81832@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: kbc@mdbs.UUCP (Kevin Castleberry)
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I tried to reply via email but the message bounced back so I am posting.
The following is somewhat of an advertisement for KnowledgeMan so
feel free to "junk" it if you don't want to read such things.

I hope you will consider KnowledgeMan for your needs.  It does not
meet all of your requirements but it does handle most of them.
>Databases with up to 500 fields per record and 100,000 records.
>
Tables can have up to 255 fields per record although you can join
tables to logically have more.  Tables can have more than 2 billion records.

>Ability to have record names up to 100 characters in length.
>
Not sure what you mean by record names but KMAN allows fields of
up to 65,000 characters in length.

>Ability to read one field out of 500 for each of 100,000 records in under
>15 seconds.
>
Not sure on this one, depends on lots of things, machine, drive......

>Ability to work with up to 10 open databases simultaneously.
>
Can have up to 255 databases open at the same time.

>Some form of data integrity protection.
>
We don't really have a built in rollback and commit but we seldom
lose data even if the machine crashes.  At most you lose one record.
It is possible to program in various integrity protections via the 4gl.

>Ability to unwind operations to a previously known "good" point.
>
Again not native to the system but can be programmed.

>Menu, window, mouse based user interface, with context-sensitive help.
>
Every thing you need here.

>Ability to generate completely customized reports.  I need to be able to
>include DOS graphics characters (boxes, lines) in the output.
>
Can do.  Complete report designer and support of sql queries through
a report template.

>Ability to do simple statistics (means, standard deviations).
>
Built right in.

>Ability to generate on screen pie and bar charts.
>
Yes graphics is part of the package and you can print them too.

>Ability to output reports and charts to HP DeskJet and LaserJet printers.
>
Yes. 

>Ability to use multiple fonts with printed reports.
>
Yes.

>Some type of macro capability.
>
Yes .

>And most of all, good performance on a 640K, 12 Mhz AT.  However, if 
>necessay, EMS is Ok.
>
This is one of KMAN's strongest point.  It's load image is only 320K
and the memory management allows you to write huge applications in 640K.
EMS can enhance the performance but we work very hard to make sure
you can deliver large applications on machines with just 640K.

>Is there anything for any price that can do all of this? 
>
I believe knowledgeman comes close, price $975 dos single user.

>One more thing, how does working in a database language compare to working
>with programming languages like C or M2?
>
You get more done, easier to maintain....fun even.  Of course if you
need a little C, KMAN has excellent facilities for extending its environment
via C.

>Well, if you've read this far, I thank you!  If you have any advice, I 
>thank you even more!
>

>Ernest Obusek
>
>ejost@unix.cis.pitt.edu
>ejost@cisunx.UUCP

Good luck with your project.

KnowledgeMan (KMan is a relational dbms environment), 
GURU (superset of KMan includes an expert system development environment)
GURU Solveur (Application generator for diagnostic expert systems)
(Our products run in VMS, SUNOS, OS/2 and MSDOS.)

Kevin Castleberry, VP Products		(kbc@mdbs)
Micro Data Base Systems Inc.		uunet!purdue!mdbs!kbc
KMAN/GURU Division			(317) 448-6187
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