Re: CGIDEV2 performance versus Net.Data

Joe Pluta wrote:

> Unfortunately, nobody is really trying to get serious performance
> numbers. I think we as a community need to try to come up with
> a set of truly representative benchmarks.  A "web application" is
> not a simple, homogenous concept.  There are widely varying
> requirements.  For example, a pure query on keyed data (such
> as an order status inquiry) is a different beast than a data mining
> application (such as a product search based on keywords, with
> user-definable sort criteria).  A data-entry application is a different
> category altogether.

Amen.

A lot of shops adopt a particular Web technology or architecture, only to
find out, down the road, that there were a number of performance, or
scalability, or development environment gotchas.  I think the magnitude of
the problem is huge.  As a community, we need to get this sorted out!

Thanks,

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com