Re: Please help me decide

in article 3AE0472F.E38ECAC_at_cyberstream.gr, George I. Develekos at george.develekos_at_cyberstream.gr wrote on 4/20/01 7:26 AM:

> 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?

Object Relational
Oracle
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> Please advise!
>
> Thanks,
>
> G.I.Develekos
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 12:59:02 CDT