Re: IDS - DSS version

Posted in 2004

Mike Dunham-Wilkie — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:38:51 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

--=====================_939313010==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed A google search for "bitmapped DSS Informix" turned up the following paper: http://www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/dssb.pdf so you're not dreaming, although I don't know if this product exists outside of the white paper. Mike At 06:47 AM 8/20/04, rkusenet wrote: >"Fernando Nunes" <spam@domus.online.pt> wrote > > > There is no product based on IDS code base dedicated to DSS... > > Unless someone has a secret project ;) > >This is my understanding too. However the person who told me insists that >it is IDS with DSS option. No XPS. No RedBrick etc. He specifically >referred to bitmap index >as one of the features in IDS-DSS,but not in regular IDS. >Had he not been an ex-Informix employee, I would not have taken him seriously. ---------------------------------------------- Michael Dunham-Wilkie, M.Sc., M.P.A. Senior Database Analyst Barrodale Computing Services Ltd. Tel: (250) 472-4372 Fax: (250) 472-4373 Web: <http://www.barrodale.com>http://www.barrodale.com Email: mike@barrodale.com ---------------------------------------------- Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3075 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3W2 Shipping Address: Hut R, McKenzie Avenue University of Victoria Victoria BC Canada V8W 3W2 ---------------------------------------------- --=====================_939313010==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> A google search for "bitmapped DSS Informix" turned up the following paper: <a href="http://www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/dssb.pdf"; eudora="autourl">http://www.dmreview.com/whitepaper/dssb.pdf</a> ; so you're not dreaming, although I don't know if this product exists outside of the white paper. Mike At 06:47 AM 8/20/04, rkusenet wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">"Fernando Nunes" <spam@domus.online.pt> wrote > There is no product based on IDS code base dedicated to DSS... > Unless someone has a secret project ;) This is my understanding too. However the person who told me insists that it is IDS with DSS option. No XPS. No RedBrick etc. He specifically referred to bitmap index as one of the features in IDS-DSS,but not in regular IDS. Had he not been an ex-Informix employee, I would not have taken him seriously.</blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> <tt>---------------------------------------------- Michael Dunham-Wilkie, M.Sc., M.P.A. Senior Database Analyst Barrodale Computing Services Ltd. Tel: (250) 472-4372 Fax: (250) 472-4373 Web: <a href="http://www.barrodale.com">http://www.barrodale.com ; </a>Email: mike@barrodale.com ---------------------------------------------- Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3075 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3W2 Shipping Address: Hut R, McKenzie Avenue University of Victoria Victoria BC Canada V8W 3W2 ---------------------------------------------- </body> </html> --=====================_939313010==.ALT-- sending to informix-list