Seref, I was simply trying to take your hint. :).

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Seref Arikan <
serefarikan at kurumsalteknoloji.com> wrote:

> AQL is not part of the official specification yet.
>
> Regards
> Seref
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Randolph Neall <
> randy.neall at veriquant.com> wrote:
>
>> Thomas, somehow I'm not finding the AQL specification. It's probably
>> right under my nose on your specification/release page. Also, do you have
>> any references describing the AQL processor? Did you write *that* from
>> scratch?? It would seem that the AQL processor would indeed function as
>> a formidable DBMS in its own right, at least with regard to reads, capable
>> of managing AND/OR logic trees and serving up flat "tables" of joined data
>> structures like any RDBMS.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Beale <
>> thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  On 17/04/2013 18:47, Randolph Neall wrote:
>>>
>>> >The performance is perfectly adequate in all of these systems for the
>>> kinds of queries used in point of care (e.g. typically sub 1-second), and
>>> in some cases where ETL is implemented, the performance is also acceptable.
>>> It's also true that quite a lot of effort and thinking has gone into
>>> optimising AQL queries. There is always a query that can be written that
>>> will take a long time to answer, but so far there is no overlap between
>>> those type of queries and point of care latency requirements i.e. such
>>> queries are always report-oriented, research queries or some other kind of
>>> population query, where a (let's say) 5 second response is perfectly
>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>>  That's excellent! Can you give any idea how long it takes to retrieve
>>> into live memory and screen on a user's computer an entire EHR record of
>>> "typical" size and complexity? Or does that not generally happen, with
>>> records instead being fetched in smaller pieces?
>>>
>>>
>>> Right - you wouldn't ever pull an entire EHR to the screen. I have seen
>>> openEHR applications pulling the main managed lists (say 6-8 Compositions),
>>> latest lab results, plus a chronological list of consultations / events for
>>> the last year or so, plus key demographic data, all sub 0.5 sec. Then the
>>> user starts clicking on things, and more comes back.
>>>
>>> More interesting screens contain a mixture of text and e.g. vital signs
>>> real-time graphs, which AQL copes with nicely - you can bring back just a
>>> 2-D array of numbers and timestamps for the graph, using AQL.
>>>
>>> - thomas
>>>
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