From: Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia@...>
Date: 2003-05-30T14:47:23+09:00
Subject: Object Prevaylence vs. OODBMS or Madeleine vs. DyBase

Rubyists,
Am in the middle of a big technical decision of whether going with:

- an object prevaylence (Madeleine) or
- an OODBMS/dyBase (http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/dybase.html)

Questions:
- can Madeleine support multiuser concurrent access? i.e. multiple 
instance of the client app can be run simultaneously
- can Madeleine support ACID transactions?

Note that DyBase can support the above features..

My requirement are:
- simple
- native OO
- small footprint
- fast
- multiuser concurrent access
- ACID (nice but not really critical)

Application calls for a fast, embeddable fast storage with multiple 
concurrent access. Maximum number of records do not exceed 10,000. 
Updates, writes, deletes will be fast and furious. Activity will be 
extremely spiky.


Comments, experiences?


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