wright@hsi.UUCP (Gary Wright) (06/29/90)
Is anyone familiar with the Empress database system? I'd be interested in any comments good or bad you may have. Thanks in advance. -- Gary Wright ...!uunet!hsi!wright 3M Health Information Systems wright@hsi.com
mdeltoro@druco.ATT.COM (DeltoroMA) (07/03/90)
I have used EMPRESS for over three years and worked with ORACLE for 7 months. If I had to choose between the two, I would select EMPRESS hands-down !! It has excellent 4GL's - M-BUILDER and M-WRITER. These tools are powerful and very easy to use. It's SQL implemention conforms to ANSI standards and offers some nice additions. The biggest problem with EMPRESS is that is does not offer a viable ESQL interface. As of release 3.x, all ESQL code had to be placed into one module. Evidently, EMPRESS is correcting this restriction in the release 4.0. Overall, EMPRESS is an excellent RDBMS. The major problem with it is name recognition. I never realized how good EMPRESS is until I used ORACLE. -- ********************************************************************** Michael 'DT' Del Toro, Consultant 303-538-1764 Analysts International Corporation Presently at AT+T Bell Labs, 120th + Huron, Denver, CO
nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) (07/11/90)
In article <4923@druco.ATT.COM>, mdeltoro@druco.ATT.COM (DeltoroMA) writes: > I have used EMPRESS for over three years and worked > with ORACLE for 7 months. If I had to choose between the > two, I would select EMPRESS hands-down !! It has excellent > 4GL's - M-BUILDER and M-WRITER. These tools are powerful and > very easy to use. It's SQL implemention conforms to ANSI > standards and offers some nice additions. Empress also allows adding user-defined functions to both M-Builder and SQL. Really useful for that odd occasion when the time data types are not quite what you wanted for example. Also, there was some discussion in c.db re supporting graphical data. Empress supports this implicitly and with extensibility built in the sky's the limit. Now, if only I could persuade my boss to buy me a sparc station... Support out of Toronto for us ( a small site ) has always been good. It would be nice if there was a strong user group network though. neil Neil McCulloch Alberta Public Safety Services 10320 146 St, Edmonton AB (403) 451-7174