Re: COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2



"Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Robert" <no@xxxxxx> wrote:
"Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Robert" <no@xxxxxx> wrote:
"Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the situations I am familiar with, traditional mainframe databases
blow
the doors off SQL type approaches. Whoever designed SQL must have
been entirely clueless, or indifferent, to machine efficiency.

Everyone who's run a Google search knows that to be untrue. It displays
the time it spent
searching three billion Web pages. I just did it with four wildcard
words -- "for * * nail
the * was lost". It found 27,000 in .08 seconds. That's fast!

Yes, and how many shared servers does it require to achieve that, eh?
My point was about hardware efficiency. If it takes 20 computers to
do what one could do using another approach, then it is less hardware
efficient.

A server with 20 CPUs costs about $40K. How much does a mainframe cost?

What part of "hardware efficient" don't you understand?

What is the point of "hardware efficiency" if it isn't cost effective?

Just because you COULD run everything on a Cray or Fujitsu super-computer
and rest assured it was "hardware efficient", doesn't mean you would.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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  • Re: COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2
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  • Re: COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2
    ... In the situations I am familiar with, traditional mainframe databases blow ... Whoever designed SQL must have ... My point was about hardware efficiency. ...
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  • Re: COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2
    ... Whoever designed SQL must have ... been entirely clueless, or indifferent, to machine efficiency. ... My point was about hardware efficiency. ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)