Buy (or develop in) UniVerse?
Hi Louie
Intersystems have done some benchmarks of multidimensional databases versus
RDBMS and some of that logic follows through to UniVerse.
It is difficult to compare UniVerse to RDBMS in benchmarks as they are
designed for RDBMS strengths. If a benchmark
David
As always, that is a great post.
Hit the nail on the head.
I think part of the problem is we continue to call UniVerse a database. It
isn't - it's an application platform that happens to have a complex storage
model behind it. When you compare *application* performance against the three
To add to my post:
If you want one single good reason, take a look at the Wrox Press Expert One to
One series books by Roger Jennings on database programming. He's a SQL Server
and .Net guru. Read his chapters on performance tuning and concurrency
management and weep for those guys.
And if
Has anyone compiled any reasons for buying or developing in UniVerse vs.
Oracle or some other relational database?
I keep hearing things like:
- UniVerse doesn't cache like a relational db
- UniVerse doesn't use indexes properly
- UniVerse selects aren't as fast as a relational db
and
is not up to
other relational databases in their world then try using it natively.
Jerry
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From: Louie Bergsagel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:08 PM
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Subject: [U2] Why Buy (or develop in) UniVerse
David,
Don't forget to invoice IBM when they use this! ;)
Regards,
Ray
(presently in Japan,therefore missing U2 University)
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