Re: [elephant-devel] db-postmodern: performance considerations

2007-12-08 Thread Alain Picard
Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What prospects are there for having a reasonable map implementation in > postmodern? Surely the prospects must be good; it's not very different from what Lispworks' CommonSQL does with MAP-QUERY. > 4) btrees are lightweight in BDB, but heavy in SQL - sou

Re: [elephant-devel] db-postmodern: performance considerations

2007-12-08 Thread Ian Eslick
Hi Alex & all, 1) In general we seem to have data stores that have different sweet spots and different optimal uses of an API. We probably should come up with a Matrix of features and suggested uses for each of them. This includes what types are in lisp-sort-order and which are not for