On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:38 PM Ben Collver <bencoll...@riseup.net> wrote: > Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 9/29/2019 7:10 PM, dmccunney wrote: > >> What would you be benchmarking? > > I would benchmark a set of tasks performed on an identical data set. > For example, importing the data, doing a bunch of inserts, deletes, > random selects, etc.
I think what you would essentially be benchmarking would be I/O performance. > >> SQLite is a full SQL compliant relational DBMS implemented as a single > >> library. dBASE and FoxPro were, IIRC "hierarchical" DBMS products. > >> Depending on what you are benchmarking this sounds like an apples and > >> oranges comparison. > > > > Yes comparing SQlite to dBASE or FoxPro is comparing apples and oranges, > > more like apples and potatoes actually... > > I thought FoxPro and Paradox were relational databases that could run in > protected mode. I recall doing joins in Paradox using QBE. IIRC. Paradox met that description. FoxPro organized data as sets of files to improve performance on small databases. Up to v2.5, FoxPro was a flat file database. In v2.6, Visual FoxPro added the ability to treat the collection of files as a relational database. Visual FoxPro 2.6 was the last version. MS had shifted focus to Access. See https://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk/hints-and-tips/fox101data.html IIRC, while FoxPro derived from FoxBASE by Fox Software, which in turn derived from Ashton Tate's dBASE III, I don't believe FoxPro or Paradox used the dBASE programming language and were not Xbase products, though I believe they could import existing dBASE database files. (I have Paradox and the manuals, but they are not currently accessible and I can't Look Stuff Up.) And yes, Protected mode was pretty much a requirement. I note SQLite for DOS was built using DJGPP, which means you need something like a 386 with a memory extender loaded to run it in DOS. I doubt this will run on an 8088/8086 in Real Mode. > -Ben ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
