Re: WebCat, The Trend, & Consolidating...

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1997


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texte = >Everyone on this list uses or is thinking about using WebCat. >One of my business partners asked an interesting question. >What is the TREND?I've never seen anyone move from WebCat to any other database solution, but I've seen quite a few who don't understand the kind of performance problems they can run into with disk-based solutions, and those people make the move to WebCat on a regular basis.>As an example, at >one point last week we had several hours with 10 simultaneous connections >to Butler. Ouch! It was impractically slow. If I move all of this over to >WebCat, which we are currently using for a few small stores, will the >performance under a load improve?Of course it will!10 simultaneous connections for a multi-threaded, RAM-caching, web-optimized database is nothing. Butler is NOT a fast db solution, no matter what they tell you. And even though they can brag about it being multi-threaded, it's still not designed for the web, it's designed for client-server operations, and that's a far different task than web data serving.Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: WebCat, The Trend, & Consolidating... (Chris Gursche 1997)
  2. Re: WebCat, The Trend, & Consolidating... (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  3. WebCat, The Trend, & Consolidating... (Paul Uttermohlen 1997)
>Everyone on this list uses or is thinking about using WebCat. >One of my business partners asked an interesting question. >What is the TREND?I've never seen anyone move from WebCat to any other database solution, but I've seen quite a few who don't understand the kind of performance problems they can run into with disk-based solutions, and those people make the move to WebCat on a regular basis.>As an example, at >one point last week we had several hours with 10 simultaneous connections >to Butler. Ouch! It was impractically slow. If I move all of this over to >WebCat, which we are currently using for a few small stores, will the >performance under a load improve?Of course it will!10 simultaneous connections for a multi-threaded, RAM-caching, web-optimized database is nothing. Butler is NOT a fast db solution, no matter what they tell you. And even though they can brag about it being multi-threaded, it's still not designed for the web, it's designed for client-server operations, and that's a far different task than web data serving.Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Kenneth Grome

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