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From: pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP (840033@G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: How good is Empress?
Message-ID: <349@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 23:24:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 23:24:34 1987
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In article <449@agsm.unsw.oz>, bobm@agsm.unsw.oz writes:
> 
>    We are considering acquiring a database language to operate on a
> Vax 11/780 under System 5.2.2.  .....
> but have rarely seen reference to Mistress/Empress, which has
> been highly recommended.  What experience have users had with Empress?
> How does it stack up against the better known databases (Ingres, Informix),

  Feature-wise, Mistress/Empress compares well.  It also has the attribute that
  one can easily imbed database manipulation commands in a shell script (tho
  it is not difficult to write a simple one to do the same in others; I did 
  that for our Ingres installation).

  I would, however, see if the company has worked on the speed of join operat-
  ions ....

        greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny