From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 08:05:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01494 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01446 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03240; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:04:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA29061; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:04:05 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:04:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199803031604.JAA29061@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Hancock Cc: Nate Williams , "John S. Dyson" , Terry Lambert , smp@csn.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: References: <199803030519.WAA26387@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I just found out that ODI's ObjectStore uses Transitive Closure > > > calculations to manage objects. They've got one of the fastest object db > > > implementations around for this and other reasons. > > > > Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah. (Wiping tears from my eyes..) > > > > You've *GOT* to be kidding, right? ObjectStore is fast for a ObjectDB, > > but it's *darn* slow as compared to a relational DB, like Oracle and/or > > Informix. > > > > (We use their Java engine in our product, but speedy it ain't. And the > > locking in ObjectStore is useless at best. At least their payware Java > > DB has the ability to have more than one 'session' open on a DB at a > > time.) > > You're looking at the PSE which is completely different. You're playing > with a one user toy, a nice toy but still a toy. PSE/PRO is more than a one user toy. PSE is the one-user toy, PSE/PRO at least allows more than one session per process, unlike ObjectStore. > ODI's ObjectStore is faster than Oracle, Sybase, or Informix. Much > faster. We've demo'd ObjectStore, and because of the 'one-process per DB' locking they have, it's basically useless. (And, the much faster we've not seen either.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message