Hello and a comment

Hello to the list,

I read the small archive, and regarding the first steps and goals I'd  
like to propose that some type of speed consideration be inserted in  
there.
While Jochen does think that we can be somewhat lenient with speed,  
when I look to the future I see some of us (certainly myself) going  
further into extremely high performance systems. Those systems are  
characterized by efficient in-memory databases for very fast lookups  
(full-fledged RDBMS or just centralized hash tables) and high-speed  
interconnects (infiniband & co.) that reduce communication latency.
If the DBI starts to lose some of its stellar performance, it will be  
less suited to become the de-facto standard for communication with  
these systems, and we'll have to build custom APIs (which I currently  
do) as opposed to simpler drivers. I'm not saying that the DBI should  
be a general access API for anything remotely resembling databases,  
but I'd like to put this on the table for discussion.
Does anyone think that it makes sense to extend the DBI goals to  
encompass more esoteric database/storage systems? If so, then speed  
will be a prime concern on the fringes.

Henri