Re: Please help me decide

From: Steve Long <steven.long_at_erols.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:58:57 GMT
Message-ID: <9c11c1$mrj$1@bob.news.rcn.net>

now what answer do you really expect from comp.databases.ORACLE.server subscribers???

"George I. Develekos" <george.develekos_at_cyberstream.gr> wrote in message news:3AE0472F.E38ECAC_at_cyberstream.gr...
> Hi to all,
>
> We're in the early designing stages for a knowledge management system
> that will model knowledge items as XML files containing text fields as
> well as BLOBs. The XML elements will be stored in a DBMS. Intelligent
> rule-based retrieval and management in general must be supported. The
> number of stored items will be in the thousands, but their size may be
> in the Megs. Access to the database will be through the WWW, most
> probably via JDBC, and will not be frequent. The OS will be WNT/2000 or
> Solaris.
>
> The million-dollar question now is: what DBMS should we go for?
> Relational, OO or OR? And in vendor-specific terms, Oracle? DB2?
> MS-SQL-Server?
>
> Please advise!
>
> Thanks,
>
> G.I.Develekos
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 12:58:57 CDT