Thanks for that great explanation Traian!

I would suggest that PostGIS is probably the best choice if your going
to pick a spatial database server, as it's the most complete free
actively maintained
implementation, plus outperforms Oracle ( google FOSS4G WMS Shootout stats)

z

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Traian Stanev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In the limit, fetching data from an in-process, close to native 
> representation (e.g. SQLite) will significantly outperform an out-of-process 
> (and possibly remote machine) based RDBMS, at the very least due to the 
> latency and inter-process communication involved.
>
> One could claim that the performance difference could be introduced by 
> differences in the FDO translation layer (e.g. SQLite translation being 
> hypothetically slower than other RDBMS), but this is not the case in FDO.
>
> The above assumes simple queries, as generally required by MapGuide 
> rendering, given that the original question was about MapGuide.
>
> Traian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 9:04 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [mapguide-users] RE: RDBMS connection performance in Mapguide
>
> Agreed.
>
> You shouldn't automatically dismiss SQL Server's performance (or any other
> RDBMS) just because MapGuide may give a very bad impression of it.
>
> There are entire books written and tons of Google results about this 
> particular subject (DB design and optimisation). All MapGuide does is issue 
> queries to your database, it doesn't know anything about indexes, execution 
> plans, etc.
>
> - Jackie
>
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