ShareBase II: An RDBMS designed for a client/server environment.
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Server/8000: "Upper-mid-range database server" that supported ShareBase II. Optimized database operations on a RISC/ECL database processor. Used a "distributed function multiprocessor architecture" and included up to 256 MB of "shared high-speed data memory." Supported a variety of clients, including IBM PC DOS, Apple Macintosh, Sun, AT&T 3B series computers systems, Pyramid, DEC VAX, HP 3000 and HP 9000, and IBM VM/CMS and MVS.
Server/300 supported ShareBase I and worked with a variety of clients, including PC/DOS, UNIX workstations, AT&T System V, Sun, and DEC VAX with BSD/UNIX, VAX/VMS, or ULTRIX. It also supported up to 50 databases, 32,000 tables per database, 2 billion rows per table, 4 MB of memory, and 200 concurrent users.
Server/700 supported ShareBase I, same basic features as the Server/300, but with 6 MB of memory and "greater performance for more demanding environments".
ShareCom: Communications facilities between database clients and the ShareBase servers.
The Server/300 came in three models:
Model 25: 600 MB of disk storage and one tape drive
Model 35: 1200 MB of disk storage and two tape drives
Model 60: 3320 MB of disk storage and two tape drives
Affiliation with Omnibase/SmartStar
An announcement was made in 1984, that Britton-Lee's database machine IDM (Intelligent Database Machine) was being sold together with Signal Technology Inc.'s Omnibase and SmartStar relational database software.
This hardware/software combination of Omnibase/Smartstar/Britton Lee Data Base Machine(s), was used by NASA, USMC and by financial services for analysis.
SmartStar is Signal Technology Inc (STI)'s application development environment
for the VAX, and it supports several databases using native connections:
RMS, Rdb/VMS, Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Teradata/ShareBase.
Although before SQL became standard STI's focus was on IQL (Interactive Query Language), now the query language it supports is SQL.
Components include
SmartBuilder
SmartDesign
SmartStation
SmartGL
SmartCall and RSQL (for use from 3GL languages)
SmartQuery
SmartMove (mass load/unload)
SmartReport
SmartPainter
ISQL (Interactive SQL)
Signal Technology Inc
As the above combination moved along, STI and Britton-Lee saw a validation in the form of a review, which confirmed: "there exists no database management system that matches the performance of the IDM with OMNIBASE."
