But remember, RBase is not client server. It is running off the network server hard drive as though running off a local hard drive, but is still multi-user in its capabilities. I hope you are at least running on a 100BaseT network and a nicely cached server. Given this setup, we are quite please with the speed of RBase. We have found that our old Netware 3.12 was faster in certain types of operations than our current Windows NT 4.0, but NT is faster in other operations (not necessarily the ones we would have wished for!). That given, it runs about as fast off the server for our varied uses as off a local hard drive.
To upgrade to client server on multi-user databases with insert and update capabilities of RBase, you would have to go to Oracle, SQL Server, Informix or UDB, with a huge jump in cost of administration, licensing, and applications creation.
Ike
At 09:44 AM 6/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
Your test is flawed in that it doesn't reflect the speed difference in the
database engine between multi and single user. Write a loop that just does
the access without the Screen display for an accurate measure of the Engine.
Screen writes can have a great deal to do with video card, buss, VRam,
etc.....
