Re: [help] main memory db
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:35:02 -0800
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"Paul" <paul_at_not.a.chance.ie> wrote in message <news:MPG.1a355f9b53cbbe9f989816_at_news1.eircom.net>...
> "Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster" <joe_at_bftsi0.UUCP> says...
> > Prevayler is not a DBMS but merely yet another object persistence
> > library. FastDB commits both the First and Second Great Blunders.
> Care to explain what you mean by "commits both the First and Second
> Great Blunders."?
The first is equating tables with classes. Tables are really variables!
URL:http://www.ispras.ru/~knizhnik/fastdb/readme.htm#table
The first leads to the second, attributes containing /pointers/.
> I think that in memory dbs will start to become very common in the near
> future.
Is there a reason an RDBMS intrinsically cannot work well in a virtual memory environment, perhaps using memory-mapped files, where memory is used as a cache? If everything fits into RAM, great! Otherwise, the performance degrades gracefully?
-- Joe Foster <mailto:jlfoster%40znet.com> "Regged" again? <http://www.xenu.net/> WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above They're coming to because my cats have apparently learned to type. take me away, ha ha!Received on Mon Dec 01 2003 - 18:35:02 CET