Daylight Datablade
ORDBMS Features:
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Extendable Datatypes
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Object Types-BLOB (binary large
object), CLOB(character large object)
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Function overloading
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Table inheritance, including functional
inheritance
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Access Methods includes functional indexing
The Daylight Datablade with be a module that can be installed with
an Informix database and enable it to have "chemical intelligence"
using the module's SQL extensions
Datablade creation options:
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Create distinct types, use
function overloading and casting
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Create opaque types, define
unique functions, casting to lvarchar