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Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company)
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Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 17:11:57 EDT
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In article <332@bty.UUCP> yost@bty.UUCP writes:
>> Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I don`t mind at all having employees of
>> various vendors discuss the relative merits of their systems, as well as
>> having users of those systems discuss them. 

Well then,  count  me  in  this  "minority"  too.  I,  also,  am  currently
evaluating  DBMSs (RDBMSs to be exact) and have not ruled out the idea of a
"back-end" DB machine to boot :).  I have learned some  interesting  things
from this newgroup but would like to learn a lot more that might help me in
my decision.

We're doing some rapid prototyping (hence  RDBMS)  for  both  hardware  and
software  on  UNIX  based  "workstations".  Our task entails such things as
message processing (involving field checking and storage of "formatted" but
variable length text), geographic displays (bit map storage would be nice),
sophisticated  MMI,  and  manipulation  of  more  traditional kinds of data
(which lends itself well to "traditional" RDBMSs).  On top of all  this  we
are  going  to  have a number of "workstations" with several "operators" at
each that will be tied together and all have to access the same database in
a time-critical fashion.

We would like sophisticated 4GL capability AND GOOD PERFORMANCE!!  So far I
haven't  found  the  "best  of all worlds".  There are RDBMS products which
have capabilities like binary and unlimited  text  data  types  but  slower
performance,  etc.  I  would  love  to  hear  from vendors and users alike.

Remember too that vendors who tout their products in this forum are subject
to criticisms, complaints, and exceptions -  what  better  way  to  compare
sales hype with reality.  So let's open up the floor for all!

   Janet M. Maclaughlin, Code 722   MILNET/ARPANET: walker@nosc.arpa
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