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From: noscvax!key
Date: Sat Apr 2 08:12:48 1983
Subject: Unix DBMSs
Posted: Fri Apr 1 07:54:48 1983
Received: Sat Apr 2 08:12:48 1983
Apart from Berkeley Ingres and RTI Ingres, does anyone know of a
database management system (DBMS) that runs under Unix? If you
will mail your responses to me I will prepare a summary for the
net. I am particularly interested in knowing:
- The name and version of the product.
- The vendor or a point of contact.
- What version(s) of Unix the DBMS runs under.
- What computer(s) the DBMS runs on.
- The data model employed (hierarchical, CODASYL/network,
relational, other).
If you have some experience with the DBMS, I would also be in-
terested in your comments on:
- Your application(s) for the DBMS.
- The features you like or dislike.
- Performance (access speed, data compression, etc.)
- Data integrity
- Vendor support (documentation, training, repairs)
Gerry Key
Computer Sciences Corporation
4045 Hancock Street
San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 225-8401
Alternate address:
key@nosc-cc (ARAPnet)
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From: noscvax!key
Date: Wed Apr 13 23:45:24 1983
Subject: Unix DBMSs: Update
Posted: Tue Apr 12 07:20:19 1983
Received: Wed Apr 13 23:45:24 1983
RE: My message of 01 April 1983, titled "Unix DBMSs"
I continue to receive a small but steady stream of names of data-
base systems running under Unix. In most cases I have only the
product name and a contact and have had to call the vendor for
technical details. The product data sheets are trickling in
slowly.
Several of the respondents stated they were on the verge of mak-
ing a decision regarding a DBMS and were most anxious to learn
the results of my survey. I hesitate to finalize that survey so
long as new names are coming in with reasonable frequency and I
have so few technical details for most of the systems. Instead,
I have listed below the names of the Unix-based DBMSs I am aware
of and at least one point-of-contact for each systems. With the
possible exception of the last two items on the list, all these
systems are purported to be relational DBMSs.
Berkeley Ingres
Comes with 4.x bsd Unix. No contact.
RTI Ingres
Richard Scheffer
Relational Technology Inc.
2855 Telegraph Ave., Suite 515
Berkeley, California 94705
(415) 845-1700
Oracle
Oracle Corporation
3000 Sand Hill Road 3-180
Menlo Park, California 94025
(415) 854-7350
Mistress
Valerie Deacon
Rhodnius, Inc.
10 St. Mary Street
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA M4Y 1P9
(416) 922-1743
Troll
Anthony I. Wasserman
Medical Information Science
Room A-16
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California 94143
(415) 666-2951
Informix
Bill Hedge
Relational Database Systems, Inc.
1208 Apollo Way, Suite 503
Sunnyvale, California 94086
(408) 746-0982
/rdb
Rod Mantis, Computer Consulting
1300-A Space Park Way
Mountain View, California 94043
(415) 443-7815
(415) 967-7770
Unify
North American Technology, Inc.
9570 SW Barbur Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97219
(503) 245-6585
AVL (as a DBMS implementation language)
A system at UCSD (contact on vacation)
I will finalize this list and add a summary of the technical
specifications I could obtain for each system as soon as possi-
ble. As promised, I will distribute that summary report via the
net.
'Thanks' to all who have responded so far.
Gerry Key
Computer Sciences Corporation
4045 Hancock Street
San Diego, California 92110
(619) 225-8401
key@nosc-cc (ARPAnet)