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From: gallmeis@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Which Ingres are we talking, here?
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Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 17:45:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  7 17:45:40 1987
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In article <1207@ihlpf.ATT.COM> mohan@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Mohan Palat) writes:
>
>Ingres also has an SQL interface. Therefore, you have the option
>of using either SQL or QUEL in your applications. Performance tests 
>have shown that Informix performs better than Ingres for small to medium
>sized databases. However, Ingres out-performs Informix for applications
>with multiple users and large databases. Overall, Ingres (5.0) is said
>to perform much better than Informix or Oracle.
>
It should be mentioned that there are two, two, two Ingreses around.
The one I think we're discussing here is Relational Technologies' (RTI)
Ingres, which is indeed a real product.

The other Ingres is the original ol' Vax Ingres from Berkeley that comes
on the BSD tapes (if I have my information right).  It should not be
confused with a commercially viable product.  For one thing, it's only
halfway there, and for another, porting it to a non-Vax is a, uh, non-
trivial effort, shall we say?  For another thing, it's slow as a pig
compared to commercial products.

On the other hand, you get it for free with BSD source.
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Bill O. Gallmeister		...mcnc!unc!gallmeis
"I been down so long, being down don't bother me."