On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:40:36PM +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
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> > Background: Our application that makes heavy use of elephant/bdb and the
> > association feature in the unstable branch is too slow by at least one order
> > of magnitude. We obviously need to profile it first before we start
Unfortunately performance is one thing of several problems that
violate the persistent object abstraction. The first big thing to
sanity check is that a set of operations is wrapped in a transaction.
This avoids disk syncs after every primitive operation which can speed
things up tremendo
LPP> BDB is the fastest backend currently available. Postmodern
LPP> is about half as fast
a little clarification -- it is not like there is a constant slowness
factor.
PostgreSQL storage itself is pretty fast , and probably in some aspects
it is even better than BDB storage.
but there is pret
> Background: Our application that makes heavy use of elephant/bdb and the
> association feature in the unstable branch is too slow by at least one order
> of magnitude. We obviously need to profile it first before we start any
> refactoring or changing the elephant configuration, and most likely
