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From: nickerso@bdofed.UUCP (b)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re:  PC/UNIX/Mac databases that support images?
Message-ID: <160@bdofed.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 17:25:16 GMT
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In article <1513@dinl.mmc.UUCP> noren@dinl.UUCP (Charles Noren) writes:
%In article <3952@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> segel@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Gargoyle) writes:
%>In article <26017@cup.portal.com> Andre_Louis_Marquis@cup.portal.com writes:
%>>
%>>The most important property is that the database can display the image on the
%>>screen.  An ideal database would accept multiple image formats as input and
%>>flexible?  I'm stuck dealing with everything from 16x16 monochrome bitmaps to

Empress RDBMS can handle the bitmaps of any size (limited by your filesystem 
only).  As far as displaying the image, you can compile graphics functions
into the 4GL itself.  I have seen this done on a SUN workstation.

%>>Since you mentioned uninterpreded byte strings, what databases support even
%>>that?  Product literature rarely mentions such things.  Thanks.
%>
%>Try calling Informix. Our new product Online does support BLOBS (up to
%>2 Meg I think).

Empress uses what they call bulk datatype.  It is just a stream of bytes.
In version 4.0 they can even handle importing and exporting bulk datatypes.

You can get in touch with Empress at (416)922-1743 in Canada (Toronto).  They
also have an office in the US (near Washington, Greenbelt MD I think) but I
don't know the number off the top of my head.  You should be able to get it
from their ads in some of the industry magazines.  They support UNIX, MS-DOS
and VMS.  I don't know if they plan on supporting MacIntosh (maybe AUX is
supported).

Thanks
	Bill Nickerson
	Etobicoke Board of Education