Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the
Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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Actually, the concept of DB storage goes back to 1965 when TRW developed a system for the US Army that was later commercialized by Dick Pick. Here is a list of the most relevant implemantations of Pick. The original which is now called D3 (Raining Data) UniVerse and UniData (IBM which accounts for the lions share of the market. Also called U2)jBASE, Reality (Northgate) and UniVision (EDP) . Revelation and APPGEN could also be included in this group.
Applications among these versions of Pick are typically very portable often requiring no more than doing a back-up on one system and restoring it on the other.
Henry Keultjes
Database Scientifics
Mansfield Ohio USA