> This isn't the point. It is not clear that RDBMS map well to > the tasks that astronomers want to do.
Robert, are you telling me that you would prefer to use the cvs files with the catalog data rather than casjobs to query the data? man .. we are about to lose our most powerful user! > Root is a system designed to enable scientists to write code, and it > might well have done Much better than SQL-server. If it had beaten out > the RDBMS by a factor of 100 with a fair hardware comparison we would > have to look very closely at our assumptions of what we wanted our DBs > for. The important point to make is that if the data wouldn't have been already in the database, it would have been impossible to do the job in 18 minutes. > As a matter of fact, the RDBMS did (surprisingly?) well. I'm not surprised. Maria > R > > _______________________________________________ > LSST-data mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lsstmail.org/mailman/listinfo/lsst-data > -- ------------------------------------------------ Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Physics & Astronomy Department Baltimore, MD 21218 (USA) Tel: 1 410 516-7679 Fax: 1 410 516-5096 _______________________________________________ LSST-data mailing list [email protected] http://www.lsstmail.org/mailman/listinfo/lsst-data
