Raining Data Database server?! - Tech Support Forums

vass0922 · September 11th, 2002, 10:19 PM

http://www.rainingdata.com

anybody ever heard of them?
Know if they're any good?
My dad's considering it for his work, and wanted to know if anybody has had any experience with it good or bad.

digital_d_17 · September 11th, 2002, 10:25 PM

Link is broken

vass0922 · September 11th, 2002, 10:28 PM

errr... I just clicked on it and it was ok

Creosote · September 12th, 2002, 02:56 AM

Which product exactly? They have a bunch.

vass0922 · September 12th, 2002, 03:25 PM

D3 I believe
Sorry forgot to mention that.

Creosote · September 12th, 2002, 08:35 PM

Dont wanna use SQL Server?

vass0922 · September 13th, 2002, 03:36 PM

Not my deal, I was just curious

Not sure what application they'll be using with it either. My dad asked me if I'd heard of it, so was curious if ANYBODY has heard of it lol

TonyM123 · September 18th, 2002, 12:22 PM

Stay away. There are hundereds of little DBMS companies that pop up all the time, only to fail horridly.
Unless it is...
Oracle
DB2
MySQL
SQLServer

If they want more headache then thier time is worth, then they can play with it. Other then that, always stick with tried and true.
If all they need is a real small DB system, then Access will work fine.
If they are considering this DBMS then I would say that they have little to no expereince with databases. I wish them the best of luck as dB design and development is not something you can pick up from a dummies book.
Tony

picksupport · September 19th, 2008, 07:39 PM

Little database companies that pop up?

D3 is a variant of the Pick operating system/dbms that "popped up" in the sixties. Couple of chaps named Pick and Nelson invented in at TRW, Dick Pick went on to release it commercially, and some of the longest running (and dare I say it reliable) databases created with it are still out there and doing their duty.

All the johnny-come-lately "relational" upstarts (you mentioned a few) post-date Pick somewhat, as the relational database hadn't been invented at the time. It came a bit later, when DEC invented RDB, which went on to become Oracle. I was working on DEC kit in those days with TOPS-20 databases,and went on the use the new fangled RDB. Pick was already an old stager back then.

Oh sweet irony, the relational greats are now building "multivalue" capabilities into their offerings (Ted Codd must be weeping in his grave) and rebranding themselves as post relational. D3/Pick is pre-relational, and has been "multivalue" all along. I can't see it dissappearing any time soon.

"If they are considering this DBMS then I would say that they have little to no expereince with databases", "stick with tried and true" - sorry, that is just cringingly ignorant. You literally don't know what you don't know.