mcclure@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (James Edward McClure) (07/14/88)
I am in the process of designing a database using Rdb and never having used Rdb before I was wondering how well it performed. The database will contain about 5 tables. I'll be doing queries on a view that will cross 4 of the 5 tables and was curious about the speed. Any information is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
reden@sys1.TANDY.COM (07/17/88)
>I am in the process of designing a database using Rdb and never having >used Rdb before I was wondering how well it performed. I am currently using RDB with a Datagrive interface to maintain hardware and software information for our network. Overall, I like it. It's very flexible in the way you can set up your data and I like the ability (and have used it) to change relation data structures at will. I have found my database to be rather slow, especially at startup. I think this is mostly due to Datagrive being slow. I did notice a very large improvement when I added indexes to the relations. Adding constraints did slow things down a lot though. I think updating constraints at COMMIT time does decrease the loading. The only problems I have had deal with Datagrive, but it is more conveienent that writing your own program and a little more powerfull than RDO. Hope this helps... Robert reden@sys1.uucp