Re: Single file databases...

From: Alain Caumes <caumes.alain_at_laposte.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:37:48 +0100
Message-ID: <45faabbb$0$27411$ba4acef3_at_news.orange.fr>


jma a e'crit :
> Hi all,
>
> I unfortunately have undertaken a clumsy task, however, I was asking
> for it. I am facing the problem of having a number of remote clients
> running applications that generate files of about ~100-200 MB of
> tabulated (mostly) data. All these files (about 100-200) must be
> available for post processing by the end user. I suggested that
> instead of managing this ourselves and ending up with a some hundred
> flat binary files, we could use a DB storage. This got misinterpreted
> and I now have to perform some tests with different DBMS where all the
> remote files have to be concatenated as *blobs* in a *local file*...
> that is the DBMS must be able to allocate a local file in a directory
> for each database and store the binary files in there.... I have seen
> that Interbase can do that, but MySQL cannot. I plan to test DB2 and
> Postgres but I cannot find any references if they are capable of doing
> this. Aditionally, I would like to be able to provide a stream to the
> clients for writing their results directly. I am not sure which system
> can do that, whether there are considerable performance issues and if
> I am missing any alternatives.
>
> TIA!!!!!!!!
>
> jma
>
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