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  1. been there, had that by prgrmr · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Linux Filesystem Challenge

    Never mind that Microsoft has been promising its "innovative" native database/filesystem (copying an idea from IBM's hugely successful OS/400) for more than ten years now. Anybody remember Cairo?"

    The seamless filesystem-in-a-database was created in the Multi-Valued DB structure in the mid-60's and release as the the Pick OS. It is still sold by Raining Data and runs on Windows, Unix, and Linux.

  2. Re:What ever happen to Pick by rttichnor · · Score: 1 · on SQL, XML, and the Relational Database Model

    PICK is still alive and kicking.
    D3 database The latest version of the PICK database.

  3. MV DBMS by adamshelley · · Score: 1 · on Text Based User Interfaces in the 21st Century?

    Text based gui's are still being created but it depends on your backend. Some DBMS's still rely on terminal type input and output natively. Examples of these are: d3 jBase ibm's u2 family. There are various options for gui'zing them but they excel at POS and terminal type input and output. Check them out. You can read about these types of databases on usenet @ comp.databases.pick.

  4. The MaVerick DBMS compiles BASIC into JBC by SpamapS · · Score: 1 · on The Future of Java?
    The MaVerick DBMS is a system to replace Multi-Value DBMS's such as This one. These systems used to be what SQL based systems are today. In fact, until just a couple of years ago, Dell ran their entire operations on one.

    MaVerickDBMS compiles the legacy BASIC code from these systems into Java Byte Code. This code is not the traditional "10 PRINT HELLO" BASIC. Nor is it like VisualBasic. It is a very simple, and powerful data-oriented language.

  5. DBMS based file system... by BattleWolf · · Score: 1 · on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System
    What we really need is a really relational, full DBMS (with sane defaults) as the fundamental storage component of an OS.

    Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the early versions of PICK based on a concept such as this? Alas, seen from here (Raining Data) it seems that PICK Systems has merged... and here PICKBASIC History is a interesting read...

  6. How about Pick? (-: by leonbrooks · · Score: 2 · on What is Holding SAP-DB Back?

    There are several other good databases around. InterBase looks pretty excellent.

    I'd be interested in RainingData (<span face=poker>now there's a truly inspired name change</span>) nee Pick GPLing their MultiValue database. Overall, a pig to use and maintain compared with something like PostgreSQL, but it still does some neat tricks and has a reasonable community around it.

  7. What about D3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System
    Database filesystems aren't anything particularly new.

    D3 and other Pick-like systems have been using filesystems based around a database for years.

    Check out this link for more information on the D3 database filesystem. ;)

  8. What about D3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on How To Implement A Database Oriented File System
    Database filesystems aren't anything particularly new.

    D3 and other Pick-like systems have been using filesystems based around a database for years.

    Check out this link for more information on the D3 database filesystem. ;)

  9. Re:My Thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Accounting Systems on Linux?

    You want my honest opinion? You don't get it.

    I run a very successful medical billing department. We use a commercial medical billing application which is based on the D3 multi-value database engine (from Raining Data). The interface is the same regardless of whether the user is on a Windows or Linux system. None of our other employees (who have no Linux experience) have any problem using this software.

    The issue of retraining is a red-herring. You always have to retrain your users when you upgrade or replace your software.

  10. PICK Database by dbworker · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Are There Large RDBMS Using Linux?

    The PICK database (aka D3) is a little known database that's been around for about 20 years, and was ported to Linux about 4 or 5 years ago. This DB is fully implemented on Linux, and I've talked w/ people that have 1000+ users running. The DB itself has several million user-licenses in the field, and a lot of them are running Linux. The Linux implementation supports multi gigabyte DBs and the user count is limited mostly by the power of the machine. I think this counts.