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From: navin@killer.UUCP (Navin Sharma)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Sybase
Message-ID: <2012@killer.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 10:11:38 EST
Article-I.D.: killer.2012
Posted: Fri Nov  6 10:11:38 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 03:56:37 EST
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Keywords: Sybase dbms multithreading

Hello dbms world!

What do you know about Sybase, the new, hot UNIX dbms?
Could someone post their personal opinions, facts, heresay on Sybase to the
net please.

My only contribution is to attempt to instigate the Informix, Oracle, Ingres
(etc.) lovers out there by saying that Sybase is supposedly the first UNIX
dbms to address the OLTP world seriously.  Apparently, its "multithreading"
capability allows the use of lightweight process inside a heavyweight one.
It also uses asynch reads/writes to perform at the fast speeds that are its
forte.  Is this actually the case or are we being slickly outwitted?  Has the
UNIX kernel (or should I say the SUN OS kernel) been hacked extensively?
Also, why does it not work with SUN's Yellow Pages software? 

Additionally, what is AT&T doing to support OLTP on UNIX? 

Thanks to all who care to comment.

		
				  The Wheel is turnin',

						Navin Sharma
						Shearson-Lehman Brothers, Inc.
						New York, NY
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