Re: Recommendations? Need image-capable DBMS for Sun
Date: 6 Jan 1995 14:46:05 GMT
Message-ID: <3ejl3d$5nv_at_portal.gmu.edu>
> > eedrjb_at_teamos.ericsson.se (Russell Bride) writes:
> > All the major DBMSes support images. But none seem to do a particularly
> > good job right now. Of the major DBMSes, Sybase's image support is
> > perhaps the creakiest (at least if you want to _update_ your images :-).
Dana 'FelineGrace' Bourgeois (fg_at_jobe.shell.portal.com) wrote:
> I am interested in documents rather than images, actually. I would like
> to put one document per record rather than have to code methods to break
> documents into multiple records and reassemble them again later.
You might ask yourself if you *really* want to store the documents in the data base.
Pro: Unqualified consistency
Con: Lousy performance, poor resource utilization
We found *NO* database that supported images to our requirements. [Yes, we are a happy Sybase shop, but Sybase doesn't come close. Prior to Sybase, we "used" Interbase and evaluated Informix.] We ended up coding our own access outside the data base for BLOBs.
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