bit of a history question

From: DaveT <bgates_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:31:25 GMT
Message-ID: <hh_Ic.2108$2u4.865@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>

hello,
this is for the 'old-timers' that were around in the mid-1980's!!

I was told by a 'consultant' that text searching in relational databases
(like oracle) was not good in the early to mid 80's, so that's why the
product they use works with a flat-file database instead of an RDBMS.

Is this true?

I know today this is not the case, but I'm having a hard time finding evidence to support this claim.

This is for an application www.dataflight.com

they are running into performance problems - my feeling is they're running into performance limitations of a flat-file database.
(slow searches, sluggish performance with huge amounts of data .... each
database is a few gigabytes in size on average. )

The problem is the data keeps coming in every month (3-400 GB per month) and this thing looks like it's going to blow up soon.

thanks,

Dave Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 18:31:25 CDT