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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!sun4nl!fido.news.demon.net!demon!news2.euro.net!news.euro.net!usenet From: "Jaap G" <jaapg@orion.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: [ANNOUNCE] free downloadable DBMS for unix Date: 20 May 1997 09:18:10 GMT Organization: EuroNet Internet Message-ID: <5lrq8i$h59@news.euro.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.134.34.194 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Lines: 76 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41272 MDBMS is a new SQL database server (currently) for UNIX systems. Some main features of MDBMS: - Very easy installation, 1 binary, no configuration. - Rich SQL support, like: subselects (WHERE IN, WHERE EXISTS), referential integrity (ON DELETE CASCADE, SET NULL, RESTRICT), GROUP BY, full expressions in SELECT and WHERE parts (SELECT (salary/12)*months FROM ...), primary keys and foreign keys consisting of multiple attributes and more. - Support for tables without a primary key. - Full control over a telnet TCP connection. There's a user TCP port for normal use and a client TCP port, for fast, easy to parse access by clients. - Smooth multitasking: every port can run there own queries simultaneously. - Full user based security system with GRANT/REVOKE on SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, DROP and WITH GRANT OPTION. - Low system demands: about 5 Mb of disk space and 4 Mb of RAM. - Free for non commercial use. Commercial versions will be very cheap. - A dynamic CGI-bin is included for easy web integration. This CGI-BIN can talk to the database in SQL and supports other features like: DES password encryption, IF THEN ELSE constructions (even nested), an INCLUDE statement, support for arithmetic calculations and more. - Versions will be available for Linux, BSD, Alpha, Solaris and possibly others. (Linux version can be downloaded now, others will be available in about 1 week). Later, the full source code will be released. - A Java interface is being worked on, as well as ODBC. Legal stuff: This version of MDBMS is an alpha test version. Is it free for non commercial use. Commercial users can use this version free for a period of one month. Future upgrades will probably be very cheap for commercial users: about $100. Remember that this is alpha software, which means that it may still contain bugs. I cannot be held reliable for any loss of data resulting from the use of this system. I have tested the database system for about 4 month now, and it has run without problems here, but still be careful. A utility 'dumpdb' is included to backup your data. The packages includes: - The server - A dynamic CGI-BIN for an easy web interface - A set of utility's - A C-library to interface with the database The full MDBMS package can be downloaded at: http://www.orion.nl/~marty/mdbms/ ps. don't forget the last '/' !!! Currently we're working on porting the DBMS to other platforms, for any suggestions please mail : mdbms@orion.nl