RE: [binarycloud-dev] Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [binarycloud-dev] Re:[PEAR-DEV] Re: [metabase-dev] RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Metabase Aniversaryrelease

> > Anyhow, there is a huge difference, optimizing a database is about a > > million times more important than choosing a fast scripting > > language. > > Ah, we disagree. The database is not the bottleneck for most applications. > The real problems of well designed, maintainable code are not solved in > the > database. And certainly optimizations are not prevented by using XML > schema > abstraction. Well you are going on about this but forget there are different applications out there. When I met Sterling at the php conference in frankfurt he was employed at a company that does searchengines (fasttrack iirc). Obviously these guys don't switch DB's often and obviously their bottleneck will be the dabatbase. If you this might be different. I will even claim that most php developers don't even ever examine their bottlenecks nor are they ever forced to. Db abstraction is also more than hiding the differences in the way different RDBMS store data or in emulating missing features. I think first and foremost its about using the same API for all my applications. This is particularly true for php as there is soo few consistency among the different native DB API's. Best regards, Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de info@dybnet.de _______________________________