Very Computer

I'm looking for a database that is really really really fast and can hold a lot
of data. The data doesn't need to be objects just ints and chars etc...
fast sorting, fast writing? Please, what's fast?

I've been told - Foxpro?

You've got literally dozens of options and all of them are fast.  But I'll
give you a heads-up on Foxpro... we don't use it anymore because it takes so
much developer-time to program it.

Remember that "fast" should be in the user's terms ... from the point where
the user envisions the need to obtain information (in the case of an ad-hoc
query), to the point where usable results are in her hands.

In these days where you routinely find Pentium-200 machines with megabytes of
RAM and fast, efficient disk-drives on a desktop running a screen-saver, the
hardware is there and the technology is there.

"What you want to do" will determine what is the best choice for you, and
don't forget to factor your time and user-time into the equation much more
than computer time.  Computer time is almost throw-away.

Cheers,  ...Sam Drake / TimesTen Performance Software

Chris
--
Windows 95 -- When your computer has too much power

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I think it really is a matter of your hardware and not the app per say.
With as much capability that most DBs have now it really is not a
software issue.

You may be able to get trial versions of some potential databases, run them
on your hardware and use a tool such as Benchmark Factory to compare the
performance of the databases. (If you visit
http://www.benchmarkresources.com and click on the banner ad my site gets
credit and thus they continue to support me ;-)

JMH

You must be talking about FoxPro for Windows and not Visual FoxPro.  I
develop in both VB5 and VFP5 and VFP5 is sooooo much easier and faster to
develop in than VB!  That is the true heads up on FoxPro.

Look at www.picksys.com

Frans Utt
Magician Systems Europe
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