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Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres, Oracle and Rdb evaluation
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 02:26:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 02:26:04 1987
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Reply-To: covici@ncoast.UUCP (John Covici)
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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Keywords: Ingres, Oracle, Rdb

In article <2097@cwruecmp.UUCP> shrimali@cwruecmp.UUCP (Tarkeshwar Shrimali) writes:
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>     I am evaluating Oracle, Ingres and Rdb for a Vax 8250. If any of
>you have done a similar exercise or have experience with either of these
>products, I'll appreciate hearing from you.
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>     If there are sufficient replys I'll summarize and post it.
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>     Thank you,
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>     shrimali@case   -via csnet
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>     



I may be able to help.  I have evaluated RDB at least and
would be very interested to hear anything about ORACLE or INGRES.

   I was using very small records with lots of keys and RDB
diesn't like that kind of thing.  Apparently,
it keeps all duplicate keys in a linear list so deleting
a key with a large number of duplicate can take quite a while.


   I also found some strange bugs such as the fact that
you cannot have a field named "description" and other
strange things -- particularly with the callable interface.

   I was trying to simulate a large database and I must
add that DEC did tell me that RDB was not good for that.

   I hope this helps.

         John