[DUG] Why InterBase

[peter at webcentre.co.nz]

> So I guess I'm left wondering what the real bottle neck the app
> servers are attempting to mitigate is.

...just from my experiences with large DBs:

> Is it disk to memory latency?

Yes.

> Is it memory to network latency?

Especially, yes.

> Some other latency?

...and database complexity. At times, an application server can de-
normalise and do other things with its caching that the back-end
doesn't do, so you win there as well.

If middleware was not useful for some things, there'd be no reason
whatever to use it. Nearly <g>.

cheers,
peter