Re: WebCat, The Trend, & Consolidating...
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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 databasesolution, but I've seen quite a few who don't understand the kind ofperformance problems they can run into with disk-based solutions, andthose 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 itbeing multi-threaded, it's still not designed for the web, it'sdesigned for client-server operations, and that's a far differenttask than web data serving.Sincerely, Ken GromeWebDNA Solutionshttp://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/.
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>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 databasesolution, but I've seen quite a few who don't understand the kind ofperformance problems they can run into with disk-based solutions, andthose 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 itbeing multi-threaded, it's still not designed for the web, it'sdesigned for client-server operations, and that's a far differenttask than web data serving.Sincerely, Ken GromeWebDNA Solutionshttp://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/.
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