rafee@rangkom.MY (M Rafee Yusoff) (10/16/90)
Facts Finding: ------------- I plan to use DBMS(s) for (at least): a. Office Automation - Accounting, Inventory,etc; b. Networked Management System - ( High Performance/Real Time); c. Information System for Wide Area Network - Policy, Gen. Info, etc. I am currently evaluating: i) Oracle; ii) Sybase; iii)Informix; iv) Acell/Unify; and v) Ingres Potential platforms are : PC, W/Station (Apollo,SUN,HP) and CONVEX C220 Any opinions on the approach, product or any other pointers are appreciated. Thank you. Rafee MIMOS (Malaysian Inst. of Microelectronic Systems) rafee@rangkom.ism.MY uunet!mimos!rafee
rafee@rangkom.MY (M Rafee Yusoff) (10/22/90)
In article <303@rangkom.MY>, rafee@rangkom.MY (M Rafee Yusoff) writes: > > Facts Finding: > ------------- > > I plan to use DBMS(s) for (at least): > Please mail your remarks/comments directly, cuz I recieve news via tape. So it gets to me quite late. For those, who have already posted to this newsgroup I would appreciate it, if you could re-mail your respose to me. I need to make a decision very soon. I also like to add a requirement with regard to WAN. By WAN I meant X.25. For information, I have also recieved some mails about the subject. Thanks for the information. I will summarize the reponses soon. Sorry for any inconveniences. Again, thank you. Rafee MIMOS rafee@rangkom.ism.MY {uunet,mcsun,munnari}!mimos!rafee
rafee@rangkom.MY (M Rafee Yusoff) (10/29/90)
Dear netland,
About to weeks ago, I posted a request in evaluating DBMSs.
The following is a kind of summary of what I have got so far,
with my DBMS evaluation. I like to thank all those people on
the netland who have responded; it has helped a lot. Since
I recieve the e-news about 1 month late (it is sent to me
via tape), I have only been able to compile responses that
was sent directly to me (via e-mail). I would appreciate it
if you sent your responses directly to me or copy to me
directly via e-mail (rafee@rangkom.ism.MY or
uunet!mimos!rafee) in the future.
Here again I looking for more pointers.
Thank you in advance.
Rafee
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Executive Summary
The following UNIX-based relational DBMSs are being evaluated.
a) Ingres Release 6;
b) Informix ...;
c) Oracle Version 6
d) Sybase Version 4.0
e) ACELL/SQL ....
Here are the preliminary result of a technology review (based
on response from netland, product presentation and documents
supplied by the vendors):
Ingres:
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Strengths: Have a good collection of CASE tool
Drawbacks: Company not doing very well
Outdated User Interface
Ineffcient technical support
Note: Got very little info, since no local support
Things may change (good or bad) since ASK has
taken over Ingres Inc.
Informix:
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Strengths: Cost (Cheapest: 1/8 of Oracle 1/4 of Sybase/Ingress)
OA solution (Wingz and Smartware)
Market leader of Unix RDBMS
Drawbacks: Lack of development tools
Focused on small desktop system
Oracle:
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Strengths: Market leader of RDBMS
Has self-developed application systems
Enterprise-wide networking (portability on 55 platforms)
Good development tools / Application Generators
Drawbacks: Bad Support (Oversold product)
Do not support 4GL
Not so good for high-performance application
Support is *really* up to a maximum of 100 users
Sybase;
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Strengths: High Performance Application
Best Client/Server Architecture
Good SQL Processor
Provide High level sercurity
Drawbacks: Do not support multiprocessing system
Lack of development tools
ACCELL/SQL:
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Strengths: Complement other UNIX RDBMS (Oracle,Informix,Syabse,Integra)
Provides good combination of Application Generator and 4GL
Support Graphical User Interface (Motif, OPENLOOK, MS Window)
Drawbacks: Smaller merket share in DBMS engine
Not available on non-Unix platform except DOS (ACELL/CP)
The opinions/evalaution results are tailored to our requirements.
I still have a long way to go, but since I am short of time, any
suggestion/opinions are appreciated. I plan to do, at least:
a) Conduct a benchmark (dev. tools, user interface & configuration)
b) Check-out storage strategis (high-performance application)
At this point of time, I am leaning towards SYBASE + ACELL/SQL for SYBASE.
There were suggestions that I should look at Progres. I am trying
to collect more information about the product.
Looking forward to your responses. Thank you.
Rafee
MIMOS (Malaysian Inst. of Microelectronic Systems)
BTW: These are my opinions and do not reflect that of MIMOS.