Hi all,
My project involves evaluation of different RDBMS systems for speed
and performance. I'm currently working on evaluation of RelX Linter
DB. I am using VC++ 2005 on Win XP for this project.
Could anyone tell me
1. Which is the fastest mechanism to access and retrieve data from
Linter DB tables?
2. Can I programmatically retrieve data into my application without
using SQL statements?
3. How can I use the Linter Call Interface in my VC++ project?

Thanks,
Shaji.

On Nov 21, 2:38 am, shaji <shajiparem... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
I have not heard ot RelX Linter DBMS before, but I suggest you start
by reading the programmer's manual. Have you looked at their web site?
(http://www.relexus.com/)

HTH,
Ed

Hi Ed,
Thanks for you reply. Yes, I have gone through the document provided
on their site. The funny thing is that it is terribly outdated. Many
of the functions are either poorly documented or erroneously
documented.
I wish I could contact someone who had prior experience in working on
Linter DB.
Regards,
Shaji.

On Nov 23, 4:51 am, shaji <shajiparem... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Well, given your initial post said your work was
"evaluation of different RDBMS systems for speed
and performance."

I would suggest a big factor in determining whether to buy a product
is:
How well does the vendor support the product? You should be talking to
a sales engineer from RelX. If they care so little to provide up-to-
date documentation, If it were me, I would be concerned about using
the product at all.

I did a similar evaluation for a client once. Two products stood out
on features lists alone. I attempted to contact both of them. One sent
a salesman and a sales engineer who insalled a BETA copy of their
latest software for benchmarking. The other company never returned my
calls. Guess which one passed up a $1million sale?

So get a hold of RelX. If they cannot help you now, what support do
you expect them to provide after they have your company's money?

Ed

On Nov 24, 6:04 am, Ed Prochak <edproc... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Hi Ed,
What you said is 100% truth. But I am doing this on behalf of a client
and they want me to evaluate Linter. I ought to give them the
performance report. May be, I can mention the facts you pointed out in
my report.
Thanks,
Shaji.

On Nov 25, 11:08 pm, shaji <shajiparem... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
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Hope that was some help. Just curious, what are the other databases in
the evaluation?

I realize you may be pretty far along, but before evaluating specific
products you and your client need to come up with the criteria to use
for the evaluation. If the rules are not established beforehand, then
you can get into preference battles where one manager like a certain
DBMS and another manager likes a different one. This is no fun for the
contractor caught in the middle.

Well good luck!
Ed

On Nov 27, 9:13 am, Ed Prochak <edproc... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
At present we've been asked to evaluate only Oracle Lite, CacheDB and
Linter. It seems the target platform has some memory\processing power
constraints. Most probably it'd be an embedded system. We are not
quite sure as they wouldn't divulge the details.
Thanks,
Shaji

On Nov 27, 12:34 am, shaji <shajiparem... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
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The first two look like good choices. To be honest, one big evaluation
I did was for an embedded system and Oracle came out on top. (It
wasn't even Oracle light back then, but the system did have decent
hardware resources.)

Like I said in a previous post, if the supplier of the DBMS is
unhelpful before the sale, don't expect much support after the sale.

Good luck.
Ed