Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!apollo!peterson_s From: peterson_s@apollo.COM (Steve Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: RDBMSs that can handle binary data? Message-ID: <40642319.104d5@apollo.COM> Date: 21 Dec 88 17:23:00 GMT References: <157@sunquest.UUCP> Reply-To: peterson_s@apollo1.UUCP (Steve Peterson) Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 16 I dont know what your hardware requirements are, but we use an RDBMS called InterBase on the Apollo platform. InterBase has a data type called a BLOB(Basic Large OBject) that is of arbitrary length and can contain either textual or binary data. InterBase is available on Apollo, Sun, and Vax hardware from: Interbase Software Corporation 209 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 617-275-3222 Stephen Peterson UUCP: {decwrl!decvax, mit-eddie, attunix}!apollo!peterson_s ARPA: peterson_s@apollo.com