Labels:text | menu | screenshot | font OCR: TABLE 1. A Representative Sample ot Web Servers with Direct Links to DBMS5 Product and Company DBMS Integration Features AOLserver : A freely available Web server that ships with > modufe called nsdb, the Database Services America Online Inc. module. It provides an interface to SQL relational databases, as well as connectivity to un- http://www.solserver.com/ derlying database servers, through plug-in database drivers (the Windows NT version in- server/index.html cludos an ODBC driver for connecting to any ODBC datasourcel. If these drivers don't meet your needs, you can write your own drivers using Tel or C using the AOLserver API. In add :- tion, AOLserver includes the Illustra DBMS. Because there are already nsdb connections be- tween the server and the database, you don't need any CGI scripts for accessing data. AOLserver ships in Windows NT and Unix versions. CL-HTTP A freely distributed Common Lisp Web server from MIT. It uses computed URLs instead of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT CGI scripts, basically using the Lisp programaning language to process requests from a pro- http://www.al.mit.ecki/projects/ prietary database system called COMLINK. It's available in Macintosh and Unix verslors, Illp/doc/cthttp/home-page.html with a Windows version under development. Commerce Builder A commercial ($695) Web server featuring SMX (Server Macro Expansion), a sot of macros The internet Factory Inc. that can be inserted directly into an HTML page, Some of the macros include basic SQL http://www.ifact.com/fact/ statements, such as SELECT, Commerce Builder doesn't care what sort of SQL databases are not.htm on the other end. The premise here is that programmers and non programmers allke can in- "sert SQL calls within their Web pages with a minimum of work, and that premise seems to be largely fulfilled. Commarco Builder ships in Windows 95 and NT versions FolkWeb LAR Concapts A commercial ($120) Windows NT Web server that uses ODBC and the HTML POST call for accessing databases, You can create all the calls you need from a Web page. http://www.ilar.com GoServe A freely available OS/2 Web server that uses REXX as a filtering tool for data requests. You'll need to know REXX and OS/2 database management before implementing GoServe as a http://www2.hurciay.ibm.com/ database solution, because you won't learn a whole lot from the GoServe documentation. gosorvo Oracie WebServer A correnercial ($2495) Unix-based Web server that integrates with Orache7 Enterprise and Orade Corp. http://www.oracle.com/prochicts/ Workgroup Sorvers using PL/SQL or Sava calls. The best results are realized, according to Or- acle, when the WebServer is combined with the Oracle PowerBrowser Web browser. websystem webserver Spinnaker Web Server. A commercial ($495] Web server that uses CGI-OLL, which substitutos Windows DLL pro- Searchlight Software inc. http://www.searchlight.com grams for the programs usually launched through Windows CGI. ft ships in Windows 95 and NT versions. SPRY SafetyWEB Server and SPRY Web Server Those two Web servers are basically the same as far as database access is concerned. Tha SPRY inc. differences Hle in SafetyWeb's ability to perform secure transactions thanks to SSL Both http://www.spry.com servers allow direct access to ODBC databases with Server Side Includes, with the results In- serted into HTML for the client. In addition, Windows DLL modules are supported. The com- mercial Windows NT Web servers from SPRY are priced at $995 for the SafetyWEB Server. and $245 for SPRY Web Server TECS WebServer A commercial ($10,000) Solaris Unix Web server. It supports direct access to relational TEC Solutions, Inc databases {currently limited to Sybase SQL Server and Oracle RDBMS) vis proprietary tags http://www.tecs.com m HTML pages. These tags are combined mnto templates, and the templates can be altered depending on the information passed along to the server from the relational database. These tags specify the type of relational database and the format the resulting data will take, as well as any SQL calls needed. Mukiple logins to multiple relational databases on the some HTML page are permitted, The biggest advantage to TECS WebServer is that a server has a direct connection to a relational database, and so no programs (CGIs, DLEs, or EXEs). are needed to access the data. Web Commander A commercial ($249 for the Windows NT version, $129 for the Windows 95 version] Web Luckman Interactive Inc. sorver that supports ODBC sopassing multiple databases via SQL statements inserted into. http://www.luckman.com/wc/ HTML pages. webcom.html Web Base A commercial (5475) Windows NT Web server that directly supports a wide range of. ExporTelligence Inc. http://www.webbase.com database formats (SQL Server, Access, FoxPro, Excel, Btrieve, aBASE III/IV, Paradox, Oracle Version 6, and Oraca7]. It combines a serins of functions (including math, logic, compar- isons, string manipulation, and dates! with a macro language (including if, case, forRow, and forindex) and user- and system-defined variables (including %date%, "browserAddress%, and %Netscape%) to combine HTML pages with database data. WebBase can also be used in conjunction with other Web servers. WebQuest A commercial (5495 for the Windows NT version, $295 for the Windows 95 version] Web Questar Microsystems Inc. server that features Server Side kidudes technology, which enables data to be inserted into http://www.questar.com HTML pages on the fly from other data sources, Including QUSC, SQL Server, Access, Para- dox, Excel, and dBASE databases ... Zeus Server A commercial (£599 for the Zeus Server or £999 for the Zeus Secure Server; ovaluation Zous Technology Ltd. coples are available as free downloads] UNIX Web server that uses a server API to facilitate http://www.zeus.co.uk/ external SQL calls to an external database without resorting to CGIs, The calls are handled products/servèc: as part of the existing process, cutting down on the CPU time needed to negotiate database maneuvers,
