[Zope-dev] Searching/Indexing/ZODB/SQL/BerkleyDB

[Chris Withers]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> FileStorage is 'damn fast', so almost anything is going to be slower.

Indeed, until it runs out of RAM for its indexes ;-)

> How much slower was is? Did you measure ratios (between the two
> storages) of time per indexing operation, or ratios of disk blocks
> transferred per indexing operation?

In my tests, Barry agreed with me that Berkley was turning out between one and
two _orders or magnitude_ slower than FileStorage :-(

Chris