Implementing DBMS in Java

From: san <sans11_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 7 Jun 2002 01:26:19 -0700
Message-ID: <8e29a54a.0206070026.54f907cc@posting.google.com>

Hi,

I was wondering if the new io facilities provided by JDK1.4 would make java a suitable language to write a database engine in. Java lacked scalable io and features like MemoryMapped files before JDK1.4. Even then some pure java databases like Pointbase and FirstSQL have been implemented.

My main concern is IO speed with respect to something like C or C++. Does anyone have concrete benchmark tests for JDK1.4 (NOT 1.3 or lower) comparing it with C++?

Regards,
Sandeep Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 03:26:19 CDT