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mohdowais
Sheikh of Yak Knowledge
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SamC
White Water Yakist
3467 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 10:23:30
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| Coming next. ANTSTEAM.COM ? |
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Wanderer
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1168 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 10:28:53
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| And the Tpc-C is .... ?Anyone know of any place actually using this? Any case studies ?*#&#* *#&#* *#&#* *#&#* Chaos, Disorder and Panic ... my work is done here! |
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jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join
7423 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 11:00:46
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| I think it hasn't been released yet. I am curious to download the evaluation edition when I get home....- Jeff |
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gfahrlander
Starting Member
23 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 11:06:36
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I went there, I looked, I didn't see any ants!  No trees were killed in posting this message. However, a large number of electrons were seriously inconvenienced! |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 11:25:06
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| Hey code is code...I bet you you can still make it grind to a halt...Brett8-) |
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Arnold Fribble
Yak-finder General
1961 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 12:04:57
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| Any database server that uses versioning instead of locking is likely to have an advantage in situations with heavily contended updates. |
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mohdowais
Sheikh of Yak Knowledge
1456 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 12:58:54
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| This is part of the interview of the Ants Software COO (Courtesy:ADTMag)ANTs Software's just-announced Data Server 2.0 is a SQL database management system with a twist. Designed for update-intensive applications like stock trading, telecommunications and package tracking, the product is said to be based on supercomputing principles revived from the 1980s that better match the demands of operational databases with the available performance and speed of modern hardware."The problem we're trying to solve is the database locking problem -- you can only have one person updating that classic inventory record at the same time," said Gary Ebersole, ANTs' president, COO and CMO. "We look at this problem and say it's still real, it'll always be real."SQL is well established, but a lot of things have changed since it was invented. "The core technology was really never designed for high concurrency, and it wasn't designed for wireless applications where you have 240 messages a second from 10,000 users," said Ebersole. "And you can do a lot of tweaking to old technology."Which is where supercomputers come in. Formed in 1985 as CHoPP Computer Corp., Ebersole's company was dormant for more than a dozen years until it was revived and renamed in 1999 as ANTs, short for Asynchronous Non-preemptive Tasks, the supercomputer-era concept that Ebersole said is the key to getting around the database locking problem."In the performance world, there are two issues: latency vs. throughput. In most transactional systems that involve human beings, throughput is more important. You want predictable latency, low latency, but not extremely low latency," Ebersole explained. "But [when] you need to get massive amounts of data through, most database systems choke -- the more workload you put on it in an update-intensive world, the slower the response time becomes and the overall throughput sometimes drops."ANTs' solution: A message-passing architecture, built on a proprietary micro-threaded engine, within the application space."It allows you to be incredibly efficient because you can keep that thread busy all the time," said Ebersole. "And the key to performance is not wasting any CPU cycles doing dispatch services from the operating system, waiting for locks. It allows you to be massively efficient, and efficiency is performance. The shorter the code path, the faster it runs."Ebersole conceded that Data Server 2.0 isn't, and was never intended to be, a world-beater on the relational database market. Established offerings from big companies are fine, he said, for 90% of developers. They aren't typically dealing with the problems of high concurrency and high workloads. ANTs, he said, is intended for that other 10% of developers."Microsoft and Oracle want one tool for all jobs. In their world, they've got the biggest hammer and everything's a nail," Ebersole explained. "We argue that there are problem sets that really require a screw." |
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Arnold Fribble
Yak-finder General
1961 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-28 : 13:40:08
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"Microsoft and Oracle want one tool for all jobs. In their world, they've got the biggest hammer and everything's a nail," Ebersole explained. "We argue that there are problem sets that really require a screw."
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cas_o
Posting Yak Master
154 Posts |
Posted - 2003-05-30 : 11:56:56
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| MMMmmm Mmmmmm Update me baby oooohhhh;-] |
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"Update-intensive RDBMS"