info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/16/85)
From: Carlo Rodriguez <m15319@mitre> I am conducting a study to help in the selection of a DBMS (or two, depending on requirements) to run on a DEC VAX/11-780 cluster under VMS. I'd like to collect the names of any DBMS packages which you have used as either designers, implementors, vendors or end users. Your comments, impressions and observations are welcome, as are any pointers to documentary information sources. I will summarize the information for the mailing list if enough responses are received. Many thanks in advance! Please send mail to me directly until my request for inclusion on the mailing list is completed (a day or two, I imagine). --- Carlo J. Rodriguez alias: carlor@mitre
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/16/85)
From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)
I did a bit of consulting on a VMS site using Oracle. The old version
was slow, and buggy (a compatibility mode version). The new version
(written in Whitesmith's C) was also slow and buggy. The support from
the manufacturer was less than wonderful. The documentation describing
the interface for Basic and C was difficult to decipher.
The new version of Oracle was slow enough that the user interface, as
well as all of the searching/sorting routines had to be written in C
in order to keep the users happy.
The manager of the site admitted to me privately that Oracle was a big
mistake.
Marty Sasaki
Havard University Science Center
sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
617-495-1270info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/18/85)
From: fair@UCB-VAX (Erik E. Fair)
Check out Britton-Lee, Inc., in Berkeley, I think.
They make a DBMS backend machine that is reputed to be very good,
and best of all, lots of database queries won't overload the VAX clusters.
Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA
dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA
{ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!fair
Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, Californiainfo-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/19/85)
From: Todd.Kueny@CMU-CS-G.ARPA Britton Lee (the last time I was there) is in Los Gatos, CA. They build a database machine which supports large SMD type disks, a micro (Z8000) to perform the query processing, an accelerator made of ECL to make things go fast, and various sorts of interfaces (RS-232 and IEEE-488 at least). I had experience with very early models (1981), Serial No. ~25 or so. They were okay but had some bugs in the communications and were missing various important things like a way to back up large databases. -Todd K.