[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86-64 and RDB and DB's in general on OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/28/2015 11:03 AM, David Froble wrote:
> IanD wrote:
>> The need for a DB of some sorts? -------------------------------- A
>> DB was once considered mandatory as a product to have available on a
>> given OS platform, Windows and Access (later sql server), Linux and
>> MySQL, OpenVMS and RDB, IBM and DB2 bla bla bla, what to do about
>> OpenVMS x86-64 and <blank>, what should be inserted here if it's not
>> going to be RDB?
>
> I'd ask at what time while the popularity of VMS was growing did RDB
> become available?  My memory is that it wasn't initially available.
>
> I'd also wonder how VMS initially grew in popularity, if it didn't have
> an available database, which you suggest was mandatory?

A relational database was not necessary or even important in 1978.

They could also sell servers with 1 MB of RAM back then.

Time has changed.

During the 80's and the 90's the relational databases took over
a lot of the data storage that was previously done in various ISAM
files and older databases (like network/CODASYL).

Arne