On 07/02/11 21:00, Steve Romanow wrote: >> Now, as I've said recently, we can immediately build our own >> external language bindings with no help from any of the DBMS >> providers. Unfortunately this option leaves us to connect in via >> the above methods, and no matter how fast that happens, it's >> subject to a performance hit. A much more elegant solution would >> be an API that dynamically links with the DBMS monitor to perform >> "direct" read/write/call and other operations. Maybe someone can >> tell us if the UO server component really is this "closer to the >> metal" interface, but it's always seemed to me that even that >> server component is one step and a performance hit away from >> direct DBMS access. With such an API (and direct access for file >> open/read/write, etc) just about any language can be implemented >> "inside the box", again with no help from the DBMS provider(s). >> >> I'm guessing we could count on two hands how many people might >> actually be intensely interested in any of this. >> >> T >>
> I think I will be tinkering with this soon. I have to believe Intercall > should give the best perfomance available, since it is at the lowest level. LibreOffice is looking for a new database ... my problem is finding time, but I'd love to write a new NF2 database for it :-) What sort of impact is an MV database going to have if it goes into something like that :-) Contact me off-line if you want to muck in :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
