ballou@nebula.ACA.MCC.COM (Nat Ballou) (11/13/89)
Hi,
I am a masters student at the University of Texas at Austin. I have
decided to write a thesis entitled 'An Evaluation of Performance and
Functionality in Object-Oriented Database Systems". I currently have
several references on benchmarking database systems, including Duhl's
OOPSLA '88 paper, Bitton's VLDB '83 paper and several other relational
benchmarks (i.e. SUN, TP1, etc.). I am also trying to get a copy of
the 'Hypermodel Benchmark' by Berre from Tektronix. If anyone has any
other useful references, please send me mail.
I am currently using ORION (MCC), Statice (Symbolices), and Postgres
(Berkley) in my evaluation. I would also like to get a hold of an up
to date version of Exodus, but don't have any pointers. I would also
like to evaluate some of the up and coming commercial OODBMSs. If any
of these vendors (i.e., Object Sciences, Object Design, ServioLogic,
etc.) would be interested in supplying me with an evaluation copy of
their system, please send me mail.
Thanks,
Nat Ballou
ballou@mcc.com
or
ballou%austin.dec@decwrl.dec.com
P.S. I am also a DEC employee, as well as a researcher on ORION at MCC.ballou@nebula.ACA.MCC.COM (Nat Ballou) (11/16/89)
This is in regard to my original posting about my thesis work on OODB benchmarks. After receiving several replies, I have realized that I should have added something. The goal of my thesis is not to compare OODBMSs. I plan to state what systems were used in the beginning of the thesis, but I will not identify the systems in any of my results (i.e., any numbers or graphs will have manufactured names such as System X, System Y, etc). If someone who supplied me their system wants to know how they did, I will tell them which of the manufactured names is their system, but I will not tell them who the other manufactured names represent. The real goal of my thesis is to come up with a good benchmark, and analyze the usefulness and limits of such a benchmark. Again, if any of the startup OODB companies are interested in supplying me a version of their system, please send mail to nat@mcc.com.