Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!kelso From: kelso@umcp-cs.UUCP (Stephen Kelley) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.micro Subject: Relational DBMS's for UNIX (info & prdt dscrption) Message-ID: <180@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 19:38:22 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.180 Posted: Thu Jun 13 19:38:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Jun-85 09:57:09 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 54 Xref: watmath net.unix:4793 net.micro:10782 Replace this line with your message In response to a recent quety about DBMS's: See UNIX REVIEW Dec/Jan and Feb/March 1984 for a two part article by John Roland reviewing UNIX DBMS's. In addition to Ingres, Oracle, Informix, Unify and Mistress you should consider the RUBIX DBMS ( which is reviewed in the above article ) . RUBIX features include: 1. Excellent integration with UNIX (the RUBIX command language operates at the shell level, not under a separate monitor). 2. Complete set of tools for loading/unloading and updating databases from/to ASCII files. 3. Two relational editors (one line oriented like ed and one full screen). 4. A forms handler/application manager called PREFIX which has a Multiplan- like interface. 5. A relational programming language with both an interpreter and a compiler which generates C as an intermediate step (can call C routines or generate functions and subroutines which are C callable). 6. A very complete C language interface (over 100 functions including functions to access forms used by PREFIX). 8. Updatable views which provide access to joins, selections and projections of any number of relations through a single view name. 9. A database environment controlled through the shell environment including a PATH variable to support automatic access to multiple databases from one directory. RUBIX has not been mass marketed (very little advertising); it has been sold mainly to manufacturers (Fortune Systems has just released RUBIX for the Fortune 32:16), OEM'S and VARS, and (recently) 1000+ copies have been installed in several DoD agencies. RUBIX (more recently) was demo'ed in the AT&T booth at Comdex, Atlanta on the 3B2. The RUBIX people are: Infosystems Technology, Inc. 6301 Ivy Lane Suite 714 Greenbelt, MD 20770 -- Real: Stephen Kelley, Univ of MD Comp Sci UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!kelso CSNet: kelso@umcp-cs ARPA: kelso%umcp-cs@UDel-Relay