On 5/30/2001 1:02 PM, Hudson Barton supposedly said:
>This is an issue somewhat related to the one about threading. Does
>Valentina supports ACID transactions to protect the integrity of
>data. My understanding is that Oracle does, while a low end dbms
>such as Filemaker does not. Also, what does Valentina have for a
>recovery system? Can you start with the last backup and then apply a
>transaction log to get back to the point where the database failed?
No, Valentina does not support transactions, nor does it have logs
for recovery. I would say it falls in between a simple desktop DB such as
FileMaker and a full RDBMS such as Oracle. If your app requires the
security and recovery features of an full RDBMS, you should go with
Oracle.
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