Re: Let's start afresh

The world rejoiced as michael_at_preece.net (Mike Preece) wrote:
> In providing the list of links for multivalue database downloads I
> forgot to mention Cache. It's a little different from the rest, and
> I've never worked with it, but it claims to be
> multivalued/post-relational ("Pick"-like) too. Here's a page that
> might be worth looking at in the light of the current discussion:
>
> http://www.intersystems.com/cache/whitepapers/performance.html

My understanding is that a BIG part of what Cache does is to require that all data be stored in memory, and use algorithms (T-trees, notably) that are specifically attuned to in-memory searching.

That (use of specialized algorithms) would be an actual _reason_ for differences in performance, as opposed to the vague notions of "because of using technology that we are incapable of coherently describing."

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