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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP)
- Subject: Re: Repost of request - looking for a database engine
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214514.26114@decuac.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:45:14 GMT
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- >I am in "immediate" need of a database engine, and was wondering if any
- >one knows where I can get one.
-
- Call Oracle, Ingres, or Sybase corp. "real" database engines are
- hard to write (oh, gawd, don't I just know) and to make work right. About
- the only thing you'll get for free is Postgres (ftp postgres.berkeley.edu)
- and that's not quite commercial code anyhow.
-
- Besides, your request is almost impossibly vague. What are you
- trying to do? Asking for a "database: relational or even object oriented"
- is like saying "I need something with wheels - any number will do - I
- have to get someplace." There's a lot of tricky little issues in choosing
- a dbms. Of course if your criteria is that it has to be *free* you're
- really out of luck.
-
- mjr.
-