NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sources/d/1384

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From: [e-mail] (John Campbell)
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Subject: Summary: relational data base packages
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A number of people requested a summary regarding the query
I made recently on relational data base software.


The following relational data base packages seem to exist:

MetalBase - (comp.sources.misc, vol28) amiga & unix.  Immature documentation.
Shql - (comp.sources.misc, vol25) SQL in sh.  help command only.
Postgres - (postgres.berkeley.edu in /pub) research project at Berkeley.
Ingres (world.std.com  in src/db) - non standard query language
Requiem (world.std.com in src/db)

Comments I received:


From arizona!uunet!decwrl!dsinc!bts.com!candle![e-mail] Tue Nov  3 01:32:34 1992
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Subject: Re: Public Domain Relational DBMS for Unix?
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From: arizona!uunet!candle![e-mail] (Bruce Momjian)
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Try shql or mbase(metalbase) both posted to comp.sources.misc.

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From: [e-mail] (Paul Sander)
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Subject: Re: Public Domain Relational DBMS for Unix?
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Campbell)
writes:
>Does anyone know of a public domain relational data base management
>program that runs on unix machines?  I'm hoping to find something as
>good as "sc" (spreadsheet calculator) but for data bases instead of
>spread sheets.  I'd like to be able to run it on SGI, SUN, HP, and
>DEC workstations (and I need it to be free).

I don't know what they run on, nor have I used any of these, but here goes:

cbase102.zip, an $80 shareware program that can be had via anonymous FTP from
SIMTEL 20.

Metalbase, in volume 28 of the comp.sources.misc archives.  Check your
friendly neighborhood Usenet archive.

Ingress, in the freed BSD sources.  (Probably not the product from the
company with the same name.)  I found it on gatekeeper.dec.com .

Requiem, available via anonymous FTP from anucsd.anu.edu.au .  Last I heard
(about a year ago) this was single-user.

POSTGRES, presently under development at UC Berkeley.  Available via FTP
from postgres.berkeley.edu .
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From: [e-mail] (John Stanley)
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Subject: Re: Public Domain Relational DBMS for Unix?
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Sander) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Campbell)
>writes:
>>Does anyone know of a public domain relational data base management
>>program that runs on unix machines?  I'm hoping to find something as
>
>I don't know what they run on, nor have I used any of these, but here goes:
>
>Ingress, in the freed BSD sources.  (Probably not the product from the
>company with the same name.)  I found it on gatekeeper.dec.com .

Ingres, the University version, is the precursor to the company now
known as Ask/Ingres (at least, the last time I dealt with them, this is
what they were called). It uses a non-standard query language called
QUEL, which the "real" Ingres also speaks (in addition to SQL). It comes
with EQUEL.

University Ingres is rather limited in what data types it understands,
mostly just character strings, integers, and floats. No 'date' or
'dollars', but real UNIX users don't need 'date', they use seconds since
midnight 1 Jan 72. :-)

Someone is still maintaining it, since there were some patches released
for SunOS 4.x.


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Subject: Re: Public Domain Relational DBMS for Unix?
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[e-mail] (John Campbell) writes:

> Does anyone know of a public domain relational data base management
> program that runs on unix machines?  I'm hoping to find something as
> good as "sc" (spreadsheet calculator) but for data bases instead of
> spread sheets.  I'd like to be able to run it on SGI, SUN, HP, and
> DEC workstations (and I need it to be free).

I don't think it's public domain, but Metal Base is freely available and
seems to work very well.  If you're not familiar with it, write back and
I'll send you more info.


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From: [e-mail] (Magnus Harlander)
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Subject: Re: Public Domain Relational DBMS for Unix?
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[e-mail] (John Campbell) writes:


>Well, I've checked archie and gotten lost elsewhere on the network,
>so I thought I'd just ask here...

>Does anyone know of a public domain relational data base management
>program that runs on unix machines?  I'm hoping to find something as
>good as "sc" (spreadsheet calculator) but for data bases instead of
>spread sheets.  I'd like to be able to run it on SGI, SUN, HP, and
>DEC workstations (and I need it to be free).

>We don't intend to run large data bases and we don't need tremendous
>query or reporting features.  Any ideas?
>--
>    John Campbell               [e-mail]
>        [e-mail]      [e-mail]

Check for postgres on postgres.berkeley.edu.

\Magnus

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