cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) (07/10/89)
I see that there are many public domain and shareware data libraries (using C as a DML) out now. CData seems to be the most popular of these type packages. Has there been any benchmarks run with these cheaper vs the $500+ DBMS packages? It seems that since they all use the popular Btree indexing alogorithm and there should be very little difference in performance. I've also seen Btree+. What's the difference between the Btree and Btree "plus" (other than a marketing gimmik) ? It seems that a good C programmer would only essentially need a few fast library functions (find, add, update, and delete) to build a database system of any size. Of course, you could create as many utilities as you want, but it seems they would all be just C programs with calls to the essential functions. Could the performance difference between FoxBase and Ashton-Tate packages be in the low-level access functions? I find it hard to be anything else.
ehwang@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Eric Hwang) (07/14/89)
Where can I get a copy of CData?
carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson) (08/25/89)
I am trying to estimate the performance of several relational database queries and updates. Does someone know a few good references? Please reply by mail. Thanks in advance, John Carlson carlson@tis.llnl.gov