David Binger wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote: > >> >> If you'd be willing to share the data, I'd be willing to populate a >> Schevo database with it and compare performance against your >> hand-crafted Durus database. You up for the challenge? :-) > > > Does schevo do something different from plain Durus that helps > deal with huge numbers of objects? Lots of indexing behind the scenes and an API that takes advantage of those indexes automatically so you don't have to write boilerplate code. But rather than try to explain it, I'd rather create the database and show it. Maybe I'll just create something trivial, autogenerate a bunch of sample data, and post the results. Just need to find the time... -- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com Schevo http://www.schevo.org Pypersyst http://www.pypersyst.org PyDispatcher http://pydispatcher.sourceforge.net