Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 14, 2000
Pros: excellent query optimizer Cons: unpopular; marginal support for complex situations
Summary: I have used the Ingres relational database management system ("RDBMS") since 1987. I built multiple reporting and full blown transaction processing systems with the product. Here are my thoughts on the product:
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Pros: Easy to manage, very fast, transaction handling, distributed databases, query compiler Cons: Ingres is the first database most people would think about.
Summary: We looked at various database offerings for Linux and we settled on Advantage Ingres. It is a easy to set up and needs very little management.
Pros: Load up, turn on, walk away.
License base is growing rapidly. Cons: It's not well marketed and people think its dead.
Summary: Forget oracle. Sure it's popular and nobody ever got fired for buying it, but COME ON?! oracle's a bloated pig, it takes ages to set up and its a pain in the a-- to manage. It ain't cheap either! Ingres is by far the best industrial strength RDBMS to
