schack@datapsan.UUCP (Brian Schack) (09/02/89)
DataSpan Technology Inc. is a Calgary-based company engaged in the
business of digital data capture and conversion of maps and
engineering documents. We are investigating the possibility of buying
a commercial database to supplement or replace our current in-house
database. Therefore, we would like to find out what other companies'
experiences are in developing or purchasing databases for applications
similar to ours. Among the questions we have are:
- how does it perform on large maps (on the order of 10,000 to 100,000
objects)? This includes speed and memory usage.
- does it support concurrent updating and access?
- how easy is it to implement spatial relationships?
- how expensive is it? [can't forget that one :-)]
We are particularly interested in the relative merits of relational
versus object-oriented databases.
Please respond via e-mail - results will be posted to the net if there
is sufficient response. Thank you.
Brian Schack DataSpan Technology Inc.
#400 540 5th Avenue SW
schack@dataspan Calgary, Alberta
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