Re: Recommendations? Need image-capable DBMS for Sun

> > eedrjb@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@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. -- -- Eric William Burger -- +1 301/417-0700(v) 0707(f) -- -- George Mason University -- SITE PhD Program -- -- The Telephone Connection -- Director of Engineering -- The views expressed above do not necessarily reflect the views of George Mason University or The Telephone Connection.