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From: scott@shuksan.UUCP (Scott Moody)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: database comparisons
Keywords: differences
Message-ID: <908@shuksan.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 17:33:49 GMT
Organization: The Boeing Co., BAC MMST, Seattle, WA
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We are making another one of those justifications for our
database system and were hoping for some help. Does anyone 
have a matrix of the relative merits of the main databases
around?  Specifically  Empress, Ingress, Oracle, GemStone, etc.

We have been using Empress for about 4 years mainly for its
low level database access since that is the level our programmers
use. We develope nifty tools for the end users to access the data, and
don't provide much SQL level interface. Does an optimizing SQL
compiler even match the embedded commands for speed? 

The matrix should include all aspects of DMBS from the embedded
queries, to distributed transactions, to SQL level, (maybe COBAL interfaces?).

Thanks in advance. It's hard to step out of our little shell and
look at the whole world again.

-Scott Moody @ Boeing Mountain Network