Re: Axiom scaling to larger databases

On 12/28/05, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:57:51 -0500, Calvin Spealman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I think Axiom can handle that. Am I right?
>
> You would be better off running performance testing yourself than relying upon hearsay on a mailing list :).  Divmod provides no warranties, and neither does the author of SQLite (or Python, for that matter).
>
> All the standard disclaimers about performance and testing apply.  What kind of hardware will you be using?  What OS?  How many users using the system concurrently?  What kind of interactive performance do you need?
>
> Even if you provided the answers to all these questions, I can't say I'd be terribly interested in doing performance testing for your client, considering that they're not *my* client :).
>
> That said, Divmod has done some performance testing and determined that
> Axiom (and SQLite) are adequate for *our* needs.  We do plan to host large
> numbers of users.  We have yet to find any performance issues with either
> Axiom or SQLite that have borne further investigation.

Good enough for me.