Relational DBMS's for UNIX (info & prdt dscrption)
Stephen Kelley
kelso at umcp-cs.UUCP
Fri Jun 14 09:38:22 AEST 1985
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In response to a recent quety about DBMS's:
See UNIX REVIEW Dec/Jan and Feb/March 1984 for a two part article by John
Roland reviewing UNIX DBMS's.
In addition to Ingres, Oracle, Informix, Unify and Mistress you should
consider the RUBIX DBMS ( which is reviewed in the above article ) .
RUBIX features include:
1. Excellent integration with UNIX (the RUBIX command language operates at
the shell level, not under a separate monitor).
2. Complete set of tools for loading/unloading and updating databases from/to
ASCII files.
3. Two relational editors (one line oriented like ed and one full screen).
4. A forms handler/application manager called PREFIX which has a Multiplan-
like interface.
5. A relational programming language with both an interpreter and a compiler
which generates C as an intermediate step (can call C routines or generate
functions and subroutines which are C callable).
6. A very complete C language interface (over 100 functions including functions
to access forms used by PREFIX).
8. Updatable views which provide access to joins, selections and projections
of any number of relations through a single view name.
9. A database environment controlled through the shell environment including a
PATH variable to support automatic access to multiple databases from one
directory.
RUBIX has not been mass marketed (very little advertising); it has been sold
mainly to manufacturers (Fortune Systems has just released RUBIX for the
Fortune 32:16), OEM'S and VARS, and (recently) 1000+ copies have been
installed in several DoD agencies. RUBIX (more recently) was demo'ed
in the AT&T booth at Comdex, Atlanta on the 3B2.
The RUBIX people are:
Infosystems Technology, Inc.
6301 Ivy Lane
Suite 714
Greenbelt, MD 20770
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