kelso@umcp-cs.UUCP (Stephen Kelley) (06/14/85)
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In response to a recent quety about DBMS's:
See UNIX REVIEW Dec/Jan and Feb/March 1984 for a two part article by John
Roland reviewing UNIX DBMS's.
In addition to Ingres, Oracle, Informix, Unify and Mistress you should
consider the RUBIX DBMS ( which is reviewed in the above article ) .
RUBIX features include:
1. Excellent integration with UNIX (the RUBIX command language operates at
the shell level, not under a separate monitor).
2. Complete set of tools for loading/unloading and updating databases from/to
ASCII files.
3. Two relational editors (one line oriented like ed and one full screen).
4. A forms handler/application manager called PREFIX which has a Multiplan-
like interface.
5. A relational programming language with both an interpreter and a compiler
which generates C as an intermediate step (can call C routines or generate
functions and subroutines which are C callable).
6. A very complete C language interface (over 100 functions including functions
to access forms used by PREFIX).
8. Updatable views which provide access to joins, selections and projections
of any number of relations through a single view name.
9. A database environment controlled through the shell environment including a
PATH variable to support automatic access to multiple databases from one
directory.
RUBIX has not been mass marketed (very little advertising); it has been sold
mainly to manufacturers (Fortune Systems has just released RUBIX for the
Fortune 32:16), OEM'S and VARS, and (recently) 1000+ copies have been
installed in several DoD agencies. RUBIX (more recently) was demo'ed
in the AT&T booth at Comdex, Atlanta on the 3B2.
The RUBIX people are:
Infosystems Technology, Inc.
6301 Ivy Lane
Suite 714
Greenbelt, MD 20770
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ARPA: kelso%umcp-cs@UDel-Relaypwd@pid.UUCP (Philip W. Dalrymple) (06/17/85)
In article <180@umcp-cs.UUCP> kelso@umcp-cs.UUCP (Stephen Kelley) writes: >Replace this line with your message > >In response to a recent quety about DBMS's: > >See UNIX REVIEW Dec/Jan and Feb/March 1984 for a two part article by John >Roland reviewing UNIX DBMS's. > >In addition to Ingres, Oracle, Informix, Unify and Mistress you should >consider the RUBIX DBMS ( which is reviewed in the above article ) . We have been OEM's for RUBIX for over two years now and use it on all of our products. The system is very easy to learn (it takes less than a week for someone with 'c' AND UNIX to pick it up). We started using it because it was the only DBMS we could get at that time which ran on the fortune systems and had a c interface. One warning RUBIX is very UNIX friendly the training needed for a novice to use RUBIX is to teach him how to use UNIX. Also PREFIX which was mentitioned in the original article is undergoing great changes so check with ITI for full details. If anyone would like to talk to a user of RUBIX send me mail. >The RUBIX people are: > > Infosystems Technology, Inc. > 6301 Ivy Lane > Suite 714 > Greenbelt, MD 20770 >-- Phone 301/345-7800 -- Philip Dalrymple akgua!pid!pwd 404/429-8266 (voice)