[Zope-dev] OracleStorage, and possibly others

[Lalo Martins]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:02:50AM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > Of course it would, for the same reasons as OracleStorage (eg
> > FileStorage/Data.fs is inefficient)
> 
> Actually, it's the other way around.  OracleStorage is 30-to-50 times slower
> than FileStorage on writes.  Reads are slow too but the slowness is somewhat
> negated by caching.

Chris, that's only true for small databases. At about 100M of
Data.fs, OracleStorage starts being faster. It depends on
hardware too. We made some benchmarks on a major Brazilian
portal, and well, it's currently running OracleStorage.

Anyway, I said "inefficient", not "slow".

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