How does ACEDB compare to commercial relational DBMSs?
A9: From Jean Thierry-Mieg, 4/97: Obviously, i have a biased opinion, but i would say that acedb is to be recommended if the following criteria are met: 1) A very complex schema, that cannot be developed at once, but will need continuous refinement in parallel with the accumulation of the data 2) The type of questions that will be asked are rather complex, with rather fuzzy answers, that one tries to refine progressively. The acedb browsing capacities are useful in this case and have no equivalent in a relational dbms ______________ I would rather recommend sybase in the following case 1) Simple schema, that can be designed from the start and does not contain too many n.n relations and does not need recursivity 2) The type of questions that will be asked is: succession of de-correlated simple questions with simple answers ____________________ Within this context, i would then list the following goodies of acedb: 1) The ace file format, which is a powerful system to prepare and exchange
