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- From: ivang@cup.portal.com (Ivan - Godard)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: BLOBS (was: 500'000 records)
- Message-ID: <72963@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 18:22:04 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <19085@mindlink.bc.ca>
- <1993Jan5.014213.27040@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Hugh McMaster writes:
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- >In article <19085@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sand
- b
- >Hugh McMaster writes:
- >
- >erg) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Seems to be still the case, among the mainstream database products.
- >|> You might have some luck with middle-users (as opposed to end-users)
- >|> such as those providing db's for, say, the publishing industry ---
- >|> a wonderful source of solutions to problems that I, thank goodness,
- >|> seldom see
- >
- >Who are the vendors of this "middle-user" software?
- >
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- Also considered 'middle users' are the vendors of components, c.f. the
- Kala persistence server written up in the December Byte.
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- >What RDBMS's do they use as the database part (or, do they do their own?)?
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- For Kala, self hosting (requires block read, write and seek from the OS)
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- >
- >What are the capabilities on the text side?
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- Anything you want - see the article.
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- >
- >Is there a newsgroup on this, or a place where technical people and users
- >of such products post?
- >
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- For Kala there's a moderated forum, you can get on by posting to
- Kala-request@world.std.com.
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- Ivan
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