Re: Recommendations? Need image-capable DB
In article 95Jan6175628@teamos17.ericsson.se, eedrjb@teamos17.ericsson.se (Russell Bride) writes: > In article <3ejl3d$5nv@portal.gmu.edu> eburger@osf1.gmu.edu (Eric W Burger) writes: > > <snip> > > I got this from Teresa ... must have been a muddle in the quoting > coz I didn't start the thread :-) > > A few years ago I was evaluating DBMS' and, if memory serves, > image/blob support was a strength for one called Empress. I had not > heard of Empress before that time and it was not chosen because it was > a little behind the times in other areas (couldn't do on-line backups, > no triggers and stored procedures, etc.). But they were in the > process of upgrading to include those types of features. > > Anyway, they are worth checking out -- it doesn't hurt to look. I > looked in my old notes and Empress Software, Inc. is in Greenbelt, > Maryland, USA at (301) 220-1919. > > Good luck > Teresa Larson > > -- > > I have been unfortuantely using Empress for the past 3 yrs at my facility. I say unfortuantely because of the following reasons: 1 - decision to use it was based on politics, not sound development practices 2 - slow as hell!! the overhead need to support it is tremendous!! It has taken upwards to 12 hours to load 50,000 records into a dbms. this dbms hasn't any locks (Empress has a hard time supporting locks!!), no indexing (Empress uses disk space like a alcoholic on a drinking benge, no keys, just your basic FLAT-FILE manager, which it really is!! 3 - The report writer sucks!! slow as hell (since it uses the same db engine as the rest of the package) 4 - haven't heard of any REAL users successfully using the 'blob' feature of the dbms. 5 - Tech support in MD is excellent, the support out of Canada stinks. They make you feel that your the idiot and you don't know what your doing!! finally 6 - TO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!! Look into Sybase, Informix, Ingres, and Oracle (in that order) instead of Empress Just the thoughts of a dbms developer who has used every major dbms on the market. These thoughts are my own and don't represent anyone else comments and/or thoughts