Re: Date's First Great Blunder
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:44:11 +0100
Message-ID: <UW9ic.33158$h44.4931728_at_stones.force9.net>
Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
> While it seems to me that the PICK model is much more flexible (but I
> don't have evidence to prove that), I will grant that all of the
> systems I have seen that use the model are mid-range in size. I
> suspect that when you need to scale beyond the millions to the
> billions of stored "records" in one "file" you might be out of the
> PICK league. I'll have to ask some pickies about scaling up. I'm
> more inclined to think that recent approaches to scale, such as
> clustering, might apply to the big guys where PICK might be left in
> the dust on newer scaling techniques.
When I said scaling I was actually thinking in terms of more tables, more queries, and more complex queries, rather than more rows. But I guess the same might apply to that sort of scaling, I don't know enough about how Pick works to say that.
Paul. Received on Fri Apr 23 2004 - 16:44:11 CEST