We recently migrated from Toplink to Torque which already speaks for itself
somewhat.
The main reason why all this entire thing started was not directly related
to Toplink's qualities as OR mapping tool - it was the drastic change in
their licensing & pricing - once of a sudden if you want to use it on a
serious server you would be paying LOADS of money - even for a big company
(some five- or even six- digit numbers). That sounded a little too much.
We evaluated a few OR-mapping tools including Castor & VBSF (I hope I got
the name right).
We ended up choosing Torque.
Now back to the subject:
(as Jon already noted) it is hard to compare Torque and Toplink as they live
in very different worlds - OS & Prop. software respectively.
if you want a purely technical comparison then it is also pretty hard to do
as these two guys belong to two opposite approaches to OR mapping.
My personal preference is definitely Torque for the folowing reasons (I am
only speaking technical reasons here):
- TopLink and the like (Castor for example) are trying to be very smart and
to do too much for you. Unfortunately it is often hard for them to know what
exactly do you want so they are doing more then they shoud (and you are
paying for it). In contrast, Torque is not doing "too much" while actually
doing a lot of really useful things.
- With Torque you are are more at control of things like caching (in fact
Torque does not cache anything, but it is easy to do it yourself the way you
want it). TopLink and the like usually do some sort of caching themselves so
you only have to Guess & Pray (tm)
- Toplink & co. usually have to use reflection making errors harder to catch
while Torque's generated source approach allows for stricter typing and
compile-time checks. Reflection is also slowing things down.
these are most important AFAIAC.
fedor.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:42 PM
> To: Turbine-Dev (E-mail)
> Subject: Toplink and Torque?
>
>
> Anybody compared Toplink with Torque? From OR mapping point
> of view, of
> course. Thanks,
>
> Howard
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