Please help me decide

From: George I. Develekos <george.develekos_at_cyberstream.gr>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:58:55 GMT
Message-ID: <3AE0472F.E38ECAC@cyberstream.gr>

Hi to all,

We're in the early designing stages for a knowledge management system that will model knowledge items as XML files containing text fields as well as BLOBs. The XML elements will be stored in a DBMS. Intelligent rule-based retrieval and management in general must be supported. The number of stored items will be in the thousands, but their size may be in the Megs. Access to the database will be through the WWW, most probably via JDBC, and will not be frequent. The OS will be WNT/2000 or Solaris.

The million-dollar question now is: what DBMS should we go for? Relational, OO or OR? And in vendor-specific terms, Oracle? DB2? MS-SQL-Server?

Please advise!

Thanks,

G.I.Develekos Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 12:58:55 CDT