Re: Re - new datablade announced for informix

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby_at_ardenta.com> wrote in message news:2jrvd8F14kit8U1_at_uni-berlin.de...
> "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio_at_serendipita.com> wrote in message
> news:cbaefd$1rc$1_at_news.xmission.com...
> > Jean Sagi said:
> > >
> > > Ummm... I read
> > > http://www.coppereye.com/coppereye_datablade.htm
> > > and it looks very interesting, indeed.
> > >
> > > I think this could be done only thanks to the datablade architecture
of
> > > Informix...
> > >
> > > This could be done with DB2?
> > >
> > > Or Oracle/Sql-Server? ... ;)
> >
> > As far as I know, they punt their technology as an alternative to
RDBMSs,
> > but yes, I think this is a classic example of how easy it can be to
extend
> > IDS.
>
> As I understand it, exactly. To achieve the same in DB2 or Oracle would
> require a code re-write, to have the index-functionality code written into
> the "engine" software. The datablade functionality of Informix obviates
the
> need for this.
>
> I've deliberatly cross-posted in case I'm talking crap, to give experts in
> the other DBMSs the chance to correct me. Somthing tells me I will regret
> it though ...!

I hope not...

Oracle provides a framework for new indextypes (which is what this sounds like) - in theory it is available to the likes of coppereye, though in practice it seems mostly to be used by Oracle internal developers - for intermedia for example.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com