Re: [help] main memory db

"Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> "Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says...

> > Prevayler is not a DBMS but merely yet another object persistence
> > library.  FastDB commits both the First and Second Great Blunders.

> Care to explain what you mean by "commits both the First and Second
> Great Blunders."?

The first is equating tables with classes.  Tables are really variables!

 URL:http://www.ispras.ru/~knizhnik/fastdb/readme.htm#table

The first leads to the second, attributes containing /pointers/.

> I think that in memory dbs will start to become very common in the near
> future.

Is there a reason an RDBMS intrinsically cannot work well in a virtual
memory environment, perhaps using memory-mapped files, where memory is
used as a cache?  If everything fits into RAM, great!  Otherwise, the
performance degrades gracefully?

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