Tracy Pierce wrote:

"2) Showing my Eloquence ignorance, I've understood all this time that
it's the best of both worlds, and while not as uh robust as Oracle, it
qualifies as an RDBMS.  Not so?"

My understanding is that the Eloquence database engine is written in the
same style as a modern RDBMS.  That is, the same code base could have been
used to implement an RDBMS.  However, what the programmer sees is the API
(Intrinsics, System Calls) not the internals.  RDBMS's are accessed with
some API that involves sending SQL statements to access data.  Eloquence is
not built to use a SQL API. Eloquence is NOT an RDBMS.

I usually associate robustness with reliability and I belive Eloquence to be
very reliable.  If you mean it to be feature rich, Eloquence is not a
feature rich as Oracle.

Charles Finley
619-795-0720

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