bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) (05/30/90)
I am reviewing various database packages for a (commercial) project
here and one that has caught my attention is "Empress". I was
wondering if anyone had any general comments about the package.
To be a little more specific, the application is not huge, as long as
performance is reasonable that's probably not an issue (e.g. human
response times on simple queries against at most tens of thousands of
records.)
I'm more concerned with quality, completeness, compatability (e.g. is
their SQL standard), experiences with the company, gotchas (e.g. funny
licensing restrictions I might miss on first pass) and so forth.
The most important thing would be robustness, I need a database that,
relatively unstressed, just runs and runs (much more than I need
"fancy".) I also need a reasonable C interface to the database.
Any other suggestions welcome. If you feel uncomfortable typing in
your thoughts feel free to call me at 617-739-0202 (Boston), or e-mail
me directly (bzs@world.std.com).
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