Re: Performance and reliability of c-tree vs. Sybase or Oracle

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In article <338d9bbb.30322066_at_news.utrecht.nl.net>, jc_at_meta4.com (Jean-Claude Wippler) wrote:
> Michael Peppler <mpeppler_at_mbay.net> wrote:
>
> >Josef Holzer wrote:
> >>
> >> I am currently using a c-tree (Faircom) database for collecting
> >> pricedata of fiancial instruments. As I want to improve the reliability
> >> of the database as well as to increase the number of datarecords, I
> >> would like to move to a more robust database like Sybase or Oracle. But
> >> I do not want to lose performance compared to my existing c-tree
> >> database that also runs fine on a desktop computer.
 ...
> >We had to write some specialized software to manage the flat files,
> >but all in all it was a pretty fast and robust system.
>
> If a C++ class library is an option, you could have a look at MetaKit:
>
> http://www.meta4.com/metakit/summary.html
>
> It should be well suited for the performance level and amount of instrument
> data you have described. The relevant features of MetaKit here are that it
> offers portable and fail-safe data storage, and can handle nested data
> structures which can be help in achieving very compact and fast storage.
>
> Feel free to contact me to discuss ideas for your particular situation, I
> have worked with scientific measurement data in the past (chromatography -
> thousands of samples, millions of data points) and might be able to offer
> some suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Jean-Claude
>
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> Jean-Claude Wippler ~ Meta Four Software ~ www.meta4.com
Received on Fri Jun 27 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST