Re: Further testing...

From: David Huynh <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:24:29 -0500

Rickard Öberg wrote:

> Rickard Öberg wrote:
>
>> I have now tried to import a database with the website of a
>> reasonably large customer containing ~300.000 objects. It worked very
>> well. I am happy with the size of the database (1Gb), and after
>> having indexed some XML XPath's (hence making the RDF database
>> contain ~3.000.000 statements) we can now do some SerQL queries on
>> the data that we have not been able to do before in a convenient way.
>> I'm very very happy with the results so far.
>
>
> I added generic XPath's to this which indexes ALL references between
> objects, regardless of where they are. I am all giggly now, because
> the result is just mindbogglingly cool. Now I can do search-replace of
> object references (e.g. "delete object X and replace all references
> with object Y") and easily find how many links I have to a particular
> page (e.g. "find all references between X and Y where X is a Link and
> Y is a Page"). Stuff like that. Things that would have been IMPOSSIBLE
> with our old technology, and certainly very very difficult with either
> just an RDBMS or even XML-database. Now it's just plain trivial. I
> could even implement garbage collection of objects in the database by
> using this (e.g. "find all objects with no references and remove them.
> Repeat until none are left").

Any of this code we can reuse?... :-)

David
Received on Mon Jan 23 2006 - 17:23:55 EST