All this talk about DataBases

[Andre Garzia]

Joe,

check http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/lexicon it is a  
lexicon for those interested in Hinduism. It not only performs  
searches but it has cross-references between words. For example  
search for "karma" or "vedas", if you want to see a quick query just  
search for "a" this will give all the words starting with "a". try  
clicking on the related words and see some AJAX routines fetching  
data and displaying it to you. All this web app is Revolution  
powered. The database stack has more than 3.000 records, one by card.  
You can see it is pretty fast, the delay is usually the network  
latency not the search.

I like using revolution as a database, I just move to SQL database  
servers when I need complex queries or concurrent access (or to store  
millions records, but I never needed that).

cheers
andre



On May 29, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Guess I'm going to start up another great controversy. Again I'm  
> hearkening back to my HC days. When it was first released, one of  
> its main claims to fame was the question as to whether or not it  
> WAS a database. Certainly, it had all of the attributes and  
> features of one. Even with SE30s as a machine; and, with some 2,000  
> records/cards, HC performed acceptably fast considering the  
> simplicity of its implementation and subsequent use. So, my  
> question is: has RR done such a poor job at duplicating this  
> functionality that we cannot get along without specialty DBs in  
> MOST instances? If it has, then at what record level must we  
> consider using these other DBs? I realize that there ARE many  
> applications that will need a greater capacity, but not the average  
> one created by the "average" Rev user. I'd sure like to know.
>
> TIA,
>
> Joe Wilkins
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