[thelist] dynamic sites

[Sally Reidy]

Martin:

I'm not that schooled in the "enterprise" DB solutions such as oracle, etc,
but think that Webcatalog would not hold up to the ACID test as well as the
above, especially the "isolation" test, as it can lock records, but would
run into the same problems as other RDBMSs do.

To my knowledge however, the tags allow for everything done by any other
RDBMS commonly used in conjunction with the web - sql, coldfusion,
access.  And you gain the added benefits I previously outlined.  It's
marketed mainly as an e-commerce tool, but most people I know use it for
much more than that.  It's fast, robust, extremely flexible and has an
active user community.  Definitely my choice of tool for backend
work.  (Not sure I'd want to do a heavy-use financial transaction system
with it though :).

At 04:28 PM 2/4/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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>Hi Sally
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>How well does that perform against the ACID test?
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>http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/databases-choosing
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>Cheers
>Martin
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>To:   thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject:  Re: [thelist] dynamic sites
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>Webcatalog - http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>tag-based commands accessing ram-resident tab-delimited text files.  Is
>extremely fast, not too hard to learn, not too expensive and can do
>anything that is needed using relational databases.  No middleware.  Can
>run on any platform. Database files (tables) can be open by any program
>that can read tab-delimited text files, so it is completely exportable.
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>I wouldn't use anything else, now that I use this.
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