database

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Not to say Lynn is wrong but if a database is well organized in terms of 
functionality, it can beat the
pants of a compiled database which woudl suffocate with too much 
information. 

Call it the space-folding starship... 

Before valentina existed, i had to port a database from a PC to Macs for a 
professional product.
Some 700000 records with relational links on which FileMaker just 
choked...

It took HC 3 days to import the data but after that it was 2 seconds 
access even on a CDROM...
But preparing the information was paramount for this trick which we can't 
all afford... 

Surely if i had Valentina then, i could have said it choked on that many 
records... ;) And any 
database can be tuned for optimum performance one way or another for 
specific data sets...

The free stuff usually takes longuer to develop though ;)

cheers
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 24/10/2005 16:26:05:

> > What motivates you to create such a beast for free? Surely it 
> > took an enormous amount of work for you?
> > 
> > How does serendipity compare on speed to database programs written in
> > C++?
> 
>  Jonathan,
> 
> I don't know how he could seriously answer your question. Valentina 2 is
> usually several multiples faster than other C/C++ based databases, so 
it's
> like comparing a footrace with five different star ships, "system based" 
and
> faster-than-light versions.
> 
> If speed is a concern at all, anything that is not compiled to machine 
code
> isnt going to work for you. If all you are going to do is store a 
thousand
> records locally and you don't need lightning speed, just about anything 
will
> work for you. It just wont grow very fast.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lynn Fredricks
> President
> Paradigma Software, Inc
> 
> Joining Worlds of Information
> 
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> 
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