Re: Discussion on Illustra ORDBMS for Web-based Databases

Allen Gu <agu@ai.org> writes: >I am currently in the process of comparing various DBMS products to >decide which one to use for our Web-based database development. Among >them, the Illustra ORDMBS is an appeal, even though we haven't really >had any direct hands-on experience with it. Therefore, any >opinion/comment/suggestion on this product and other database >development tools will be very much appreciated. Illustra's a good DBMS if you need extensibility. It's not strong on scalability, lacking features like replication, distributed DBs, row- level locking, parallelization, development and management tools, etc., all of which it will gain in being melded into the forthcoming Infomix Universal Server. Seth -- Seth Grimes -- grimes@access.digex.net -- http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes grimes@magnet.com -- http://www.magnet.com