Re: Recommendations? Need image-capable DB

In article <3evcq1$nud@juniper.almaden.ibm.com>, gainer@slowmo.almaden.ibm.com (Patrick Gainer) writes: > In answering a question on real-world use of BLOBs, istvan@pops.navo.navy.mil writes... > >Look into Sybase, Informix, Ingres, and Oracle (in that order) instead of Empress > > And DB2 for unix, version 2.1. It has far better BLOB support than any of the > others mentioned above. Hmmm. Can you tell me what "far better BLOB support" means. Informix has: 1) Tunable page-size for blobs. 2) Blobs don't get written in the logs (saves space) 3) Blobs don't get read into shared memory (unless you want to) 4) Blobs can reside in a seperate blobspace (DBSPACE), not in the tablespace. 5) Blobs can reside on removable WORM optical disks. Blob indexing will be supported in future (maybe 8.0) releases of Informix. -Snorri