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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Experience with Ctree database
Keywords: database
Message-ID: <2784@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 23:31:16 GMT
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Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA
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I can strongly recommend C-Tree (FairComm). I worked on a project where
we were moving from a full relational database under UNIX to C-Tree.
The product was about 3 MB of C code; we actually rewrote a lot of it,
but that was because the original was so far removed from what we needed.
At any rate, the C-Tree stuff is pretty low-level, but one of the
Sr. S/W Engrs produced a good high-level interface in just a couple
of weeks. The code is not documented much, but is not too hard to read.
We ran it under For:Pro, V.2 and Ultrix with no changes, and moved it
to a PC with no changes in the database portion. That company has
since ported several other products to C-Tree and is still happy with
it. It is more portable than some "standard" unix stuff such as Curses.

It was fast, even with bigger data bases, and the utilities it lacked,
such as dbload and dbunload were easy to write for it.

-Miles

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