nichols@citron.ucsb.edu (Timothy C. Nichols) (03/18/90)
I need some advice. I have to develop a database, and hypercard must fit into the equation somehow. The database will be large (several megabytes), and needs to be heavily cross referenced (indexed). Are there any powerful databases out there that Hypercard can serve as a front end for? I am aware of Oracle, but do not know a lot about it. Is Oracle hot stuff? What else is out there? Please mail me suggestions/comments. -Tim ======================================================================= nichols@cs.ucsb.edu | So long, and thanks for all the fish. =======================================================================
dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose) (03/23/90)
In article <4351@hub.UUCP> nichols@citron.ucsb.edu (Timothy C. Nichols) writes: >I need some advice. I have to develop a database, and hypercard >must fit into the equation somehow. The database will be large >(several megabytes), and needs to be heavily cross referenced >(indexed). Are there any powerful databases out there that >Hypercard can serve as a front end for? I am aware of Oracle, According to the Fall '89 APDA catalog, in an article "Hypercard developers' lab", in Omnis 5, a "large relational database package is a set of HyperCard externals and a special run-time Omnis module that lets any HyperCard stack access and manipulate an Omnis 5 database and data file"... "multi-user read/write" ... "map fields from the Omnis 5 database to HyperCard fields" ... "remarkably fast". Other than this brief review, I know nothing about it. Oracle is SQL, so it might be of more use in accessing mainframe or mini databases. Dan Dlugose UNC Educational Computing Service