hsu@kampi.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) (07/31/89)
What I need: - Free distribution (GNU style is ok) - Multiple indices - Some query capability (*? + and/or is ok) - Unix, preferably BSD environment - Capability to handle some Megabytes of stuff What I don't necessarily need: - Speed - Multi-user capability (simple server, running alone) - Crash-proof (except capability to rebuild indices if needed, lost information isn't serious problem. What would be nice: - Ascii files I'm willing to beta-test and write code myself, incomplete work or even ideas and half-made subroutines help. - Heikki Suonsivu @ 2:504/1 2:504/7 Kuutamokatu 5 A 7/02210 Espoo/FINLAND ..!mcvax!santra!kampi!hsu hsu@fingate.BITNET hsu@kampi.hut.fi voice +358-0-1351300 fax -1351948 v22bis -1351526 Os/2, better never than later
rob@phavl.UUCP (Robert Ransbottom) (08/01/89)
From article <24090@santra.UUCP>, by hsu@kampi.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu): > What I need: > [... a free database for Unix ...] > I'm willing to beta-test and write code myself, incomplete work or > even ideas and half-made subroutines help. There is /rdb which is a shell level database -- this is not free but low-cost. I mention /rdb because it is not totally unknown. And because there is a /udb which is being developed by one||some people on the Compuserve unixforum. /udb sounds like a very young freeware /rdb. -- ...!uunet!phavl!rob Robert Ransbottom
mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) (08/08/89)
You might try db_VISTA from Raima. I used it a few years ago. It's good quality. There are no licenses to worry about. Source is available. I think pricing is in the $300-500 range. They have an ad in the July issue of BYTE.
fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) (08/14/89)
In article <437@alias.UUCP> mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes: >You might try db_VISTA from Raima. I used it a few years ago. It's >good quality. There are no licenses to worry about. Source is >available. I think pricing is in the $300-500 range. They have an >ad in the July issue of BYTE. Try again. db_Vista is now a very professional product with very professional pricing. Advertising costs money and all that. We bought just the multi-user version therof and you'll need to factor your listed prices by at least 10 to be in the right neighborhood. Actually with the Query/SQL and restructure part you'd be around $7K Of course, getting the source makes all the difference in the world to justify your development costs for a very long time across any range of hardware the future may hold. Fred Rump -- This is my house. My castle will get started right after I finish with news. 26 Warren St. uucp: ...{bpa dsinc uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fr Beverly, NJ 08010 domain: fred@cdin-1.uu.net or icdi10!fr@cdin-1.uu.net 609-386-6846 "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..." - Schiller