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Joe – What is Cache?

Tired of seeing these ads
"The post-relational database" How come I don’t see this product in the TPC top 1000?

Some marketing people call it post-relational, but I guess most other people call it a hierarchical database. And as such with its own set of advantanges and disadvantages.
Check out their website to get some information. —
Frank Kalis
Moderator
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Webmaster:http://www.insidesql.de

Dont really want the company line.
Thats why I asked it here.

But you already know what a hierarchical database is? If not, check this out for a primer:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/fkalis/anintroductiontodatabasemodels.asp —
Frank Kalis
Moderator
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Webmaster:http://www.insidesql.de

uhh yeah. I wondered if anyone is rushing to chuck their SQL Databases for this thing. I also noticed a lack of any TPC benchs for Cache.

I guess, not really. Such hierachical databases are pretty fast, but very inflexible. I have searched the TPC site, but couldn’t find anything that constrains the TPC to relational databases. So, I guess the vendor has some good reasons either not to participate or not to publish the results. You know, as with all marketing sometimes perception is more than reality. [<img src=’/community/emoticons/emotion-1.gif’ alt=’

‘ />] – Frank Kalis Moderator Microsoft SQL Server MVP Webmaster:<a target="_blank" href=http://www.insidesql.de>http://www.insidesql.de</a>

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