Hi What do you mean by a 3% performance hit? And compared to what ?
Any performance hit or for that matter a performance improvement would very much dependant on the problem domain , how it maps to the data store and what you are trying to do with it, and your choice of algorithms. T On Sep 9, 8:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BigTable looks great! There's a 3% performance hit for these types of > databases. However it makes up for it in other ways. > > "Dive Into Python" seems to suggest there is less busy work, but I am > still looking into the GUI components of Python. Say, a grid of 10x10 > tiles of PNGs. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > > have no preference with MySQL or SQL, stored procedures or ad-hoc > > queries. > > Please note: MySQL is specific relational database management > system > (RDBMs), which uses a dialect of structured query language (SQL). SQL > by > itself is just a semi-standardized query language -- and can > technically > be used to access non-relational DBMS (if any such are still in use), > though the query processor would be a pain to program (map a > relational > join into a hierarchical DBMS schema? ugh). > > > SO, I'm interested in using my Google App space (free 500MB) to > > develop a quick database application. Using Python. I found "Dive > > Into Python" which I will be reading shortly. > > So one question: what RDBMs are supported in that space? > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list