| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
I am working on a opportunity to sell Rdb/VMS, DECdecision, DECwrite, PATHWorks, DECquery. IBM has came back (for about the sixth time) to re-propose INFORMIX and Wingz on a RS6000. Does anyone have a features and functions comparison between INFORMIX and Rdb/VMS. I am look for things like INFORMIX doesn't have decending B-tree index, no row level locking, no on-line backup... Thanks
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| 956.1 | the INFORMIX engine looks impressive in their own words ... | HERON::FOLDEVI | DBS - European RSVP Support | Fri Aug 02 1991 12:45 | 13 |
No real help to offer, but when reading an paper from Informix entitled "INFORMIX-OnLine, Tech Sheet", which describes the RDBMS available on Unix systems, it seems as though the engine is a "good" one. It has all those features you hoped it didn't have. It also supports checkpointing. caching, BLOBs, time INTERVAL, and selectable "isolation levels". Of course, this document doesn't say how well all this works, but it looks as though you'd have to look at capabilities such as those provided by RdbExpert, RdbAccess, and maybe RALLY, to get a favorable comparison. See an earlier note about a win over INFORMIX (some 5-6 notes before this). | |||||