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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ------- 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: --------- 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: ------- 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; ------- 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: ----------- 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.