Message-ID: <3AF38908.2466984D@mckoi.com> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:00:56 -0400 From: Tobias Downer Reply-To: tobyng@mckoi.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.theory,comp.lang.java.databases,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: S.O.D.A. database Query API - call for comments References: <9c4urh$2th$04$1@news.t-online.com> <3AEA1B84.3525@ix.netcom.com> <9cefv8$rb6$00$1@news.t-online.com> <3AEB2DB6.164F@ix.netcom.com> <9cgt8i$iqd$07$1@news.t-online.com> <3AED21D5.7597@ix.netcom.com> <9cjfdg$j8q$01$1@news.t-online.com> <3AF06D8A.5D26@ix.netcom.com> <9cq087$dke$07$1@news.t-online.com> <3AF321CF.5E4D@ix.netcom.com> <9cvc5b$7ce$07$1@news.t-online.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: cin-ts2-5.iglou.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cin-ts2-5.iglou.com X-Trace: 5 May 2001 01:03:46 -0500, cin-ts2-5.iglou.com Lines: 21 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news-incoming.iglou.com Carl Rosenberger wrote: > > Toby Downer, the maker of the McKoy database has tried our benchmark and he > did not find anything wrong with it. It can also provide interesting figures > for a simple comparison of relational databases. Hey, wait a second, leave me out of this OODBMS flame-fest... ;-) Just to set things straight - personally I dislike most types of benchmarking except those benchmarks/tests on real world applications. While I have no problem with your benchmark I would only hold it as a creditable demonstration of specific features under specific conditions. I wouldn't wish to fall into a Microsoftian 'micro benchmarks mean our marketing department has something to work with' trap. I would like to think the OODB paradigm has a lot more to offer than better performance over a relational model. Toby. -- Mckoi SQL Database - an opensource Java ORDBMS. http://www.mckoi.com/database/