Re: NexusDB database engine Crossgrade introduction

From: Hannes Danzl[NDD] (hannes_at_nexusdb.dbnexus.com)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:39:29 +1300

> I did not see any benchmarks on the NexusDB site. Only statements under
> "Feature in Detail".

Our official opinion about database "benchmarks" was made several times
already: generally they are useless. Depending on which functions exactly and
even how you test them often ends in completely different results. We've seen
enough benchmark wars in this group and for everyone who wants a benchmark
there are enough out there.

We offer a full working trial and a free lite version for everyone to download
and when asked about performance our answer is: try it with your app. We simply
can't tell people that we will be 10, 20, 50, 500% faster than the currently
used database cause we simply don't know. We are doing a lot of comparisons and
optimizations with all these featurelists and available benchmarks. They are
useful *for us* in the way that they show potential points to improve. We are
happy with these for ourselves, but what counts at the end is if the customers
are happy. And that they have to decide on their own and surely will not be if
a promise doesn't hold up.

If someone wants to include NexusDB into a benchmark we have no problems with
it as long as the source is available for every one to review and a place for
discussion/explanation of it is offered. If we suck in a certain test we will
try hard to get better in it ;)

hope this explains why we do not offer benchmarks and/or results. 

-- 
Hannes Danzl [NexusDB Developer]
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