I had the "pleasure" of working on a couple of Allbase projects whilst at
Cognos. As a database it made MPE/XL look like a good operating system.....
thankfully it seems to have died a death somewhere.

> Also, MPE/iX has its own HP-supplied SQL RDBMS product, Allbase. I used
> it on UNIX while I was there, but I didn't know database stuff well
> enough at the time to make a judgement about how good it is. The only
> thing I remember is that you had to pre-allocate large files for data
> and indexes.

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