From: Keith Sader <ksader@...>
Date: 2006-03-22T22:51:44+09:00
Subject: Ruby performance

I'm considering using Ruby to re-write and extract, transform, and
load process for an online database.  This will replace an existing VB
system that does most of the T of the ETL in T-SQL(don't ask).

My replacement choices come down to .Net(C# or VB), Perl, and Ruby. 
Since we can have up to 3 million updates to the database during the
day, performance is an issue.  Does Ruby perform as well at large text
file transformations as Perl?  Does C# for that matter?

At this point my gut feeling is to write the ETL in Ruby and transform
it to Perl if performance becomes an issue.

Any thoughts?

thanks,
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Keith Sader
ksader@gmail.com
http://www.saderfamily.org/roller/page/ksader