All this talk about DataBases

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Andre,

Thanks, you've confirmed my suspicions. So most of us don't really  
need to be concerned with "other" DBs.

Joe Wilkins

On May 29, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> 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