Re: Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL)
Date: 6 Nov 2004 10:21:47 -0800
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> You're entitled to your own opinion, Neo,
> but you're not entitled to your own facts.
You are welcome to verify the facts. The fact is Hugo's RM Solution #1 and #2 are nearly twice as slow as XDb1's even when XDb1 is executed on 5.6X slower hardware. See measurements below. You are weclome to download XDb1 (see www.xdb1/example/ex076.asp) and verify measurements against Hugo's solutions.
Not only were Hugo's solutions slower, but there were not as generic or normalized. For instance, Hugo's solution cannot represent the following cases without NULLs or redundant data (XDb1's solution is normalized down to atomic symbols):
Case1: God is the parent of an unnamed person. God is also the parent of second person with three names (string 'john', integer 100, decimal 3.14).
Case2: john isa person. john's color is brown. mary isa person. mary's color is brown. brown is a person.
As shown by the measurements made below, even when executed on a 5.6 times slower 233 Mhz Pocket PC, XDb1 generated the small common ancestor report nearly twice as fast as Hugo's non-normalized, non-generic SQL Server 2000 Solution running on a 1,300 MHz desktop.
Small Report Generation Summary (provided by Hugo)
Solution Time(ms) Platform Notes
-------------- -------- ----------------- -------------------------- RM#1 SqlSrvr2K 14.3 1.3 Ghz PC Unnormalized, non-generic RM#2 SqlSrvr2K 11.0 1.3 Ghz PC Unnormalized, non-generic
Small Report Generation Summary (provided by Neo)
Solution Time(ms) Platform Notes
------------- -------- ----------------- -------------------------- RM#1 SqlSrvr7 65.0 500 Mhz Server Unnormalized, non-generic RM#2 SqlSrvr7 68.9 500 Mhz Server Unnormalized, non-generic XDb1 4.5.7 1.632 500 Mhz Server Normalized, generic XDb1 4.5.9 6.561 233 MHz PocketPC Normalized, generic
Large Report (28,940 rows) Generation Summary (provided by Neo) 200 Goat Hierarchy (5 generations x 40 goats/generation, each goat having two parents, except 1st gen).
Solution Time(sec) Platform Notes
------------- -------- ----------------- -------------------------- RM#5 SqlSrvr7 40.5 500 Mhz Server Unnormalized, non-generic XDb1 4.5.7 2.9 500 Mhz Server Normalized, generic XDb1 4.5.9 16.971 233 Mhz PocketPC Normalized, generic
Larger Report (276,620 rows) Generation Summary (provided by Neo). 400 Goat Hierarchy (10 gen x 40 goats/gen),
Solution Time(ms) Platform Notes
------------- -------- ----------------- -------------------------- RM#5 SqlSrvr7 105 min 500 Mhz Srvr, NT Avg of 2 runs, UnNrm,UnGen XDb1 4.5.10 44 min 500 Mhz Srvr, NT Avg of 2 runs, Norm, gener XDb1 4.5.10 57 min 450 Mhz PC, 98 1 run, Normalized, genericXDb1 4.5.10 195 min 233 Mhz PocketPC 1 run, Normalized, generic Received on Sat Nov 06 2004 - 19:21:47 CET