I have used the Marxmeier ODBC extenstion of Eloquence, and it works 
just fine.
You can instantly access any Image data from inside any 3rd party tool 
that is "ODBC aware", like for instance Microsoft Access or Excel. ODBC 
also means you get a "relational view" of the Image data, and can do SQL 
queries on them if you would like.
I haven't done any performance tests, nor were there any really huge 
databases involved ( i think the largest table was about half a 
gigabyte), but it responded very well for what i needed. Developing a 
complex report in Access indeed took hours rather than the days it would 
have taken in Cobol. Plus it looked much snappier.
And if you look at the price tag compared to "RDBMS market leaders", 
it's tempting to say the least.

Lars Appel wrote:
> As far as I understand, Marxmeier Software offers ODBC access...
>
> http://www.marxmeier.com/products/sql.htm
>
> And Minisoft offers ODBC as well as JDBC access to Eloquence...
>
> http://www.minisoft.com/pages/middleware/odbc32/pages/odbc_eloquence.htm
> http://www.minisoft.com/pages/middleware/jdbc/jdbc_eloquence.htm
>
>
> So this gives you some SQL oriented access methods, if needed.
>
>
> Regards, Lars.
>
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