DBMS comparision

Hello everybody: I am doing a study (some kind of a survey) about different topics covered by diferent DBMSs. In particulary, I am interested to know some topics (covered or not) by a particular DBMS. Then, if anyone can help me I apreciate. Perahps some publication or paper about a comparision study between the more representatives dbms actually including ORACLE v7 , SYBASE v4, INGRES v6.3 , INFORMIX v.5. Particulary, I am very interestd in the following topics : - Basic characteristics: * Data types supported, integrity and manipulation data languages * 3 GL * Development tools and 4 GL * Securuty, protection mechanisms * Administration and management tools - Distribution: * Data * Applications * Models (client-server, RPCs, etc) - Support to images (multimedia) and other blobs - Integration with packages (microinformatic packages) to help in decision support and other tools - Implementation of standards (in "jure" and "fact") - Performance and kind of platforms supported in a network environment, and characteristics of those platforms (memory, disk, Operating System, releases, etc ) - Communication protocols supported in a distributed environment - Integration with CASE tools If somebody knows some paper ftpable from some archive, please send me. Thanks in advance. ____________________________________________ __ __ __ |__| |__) |__| Ana Paula Afonso | | | | | E-mail apa@fc.ul.pt Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias - Univ. de Lisboa ____________________________________________