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Re: Need to handle extremely large project

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am working with a very large well-known company that wants 
> to build an extremely large Internet version of an applcation
> that they have in-house.
> 
> This project will probably have on the order of 5 million 
> objects if I implement it in an OODBMS.

5 million objects are not per se a problem for ozone. I was able to handle 3M
objects on my 64MB notebokk without any problem! Of course this highly depends
on the strukture of the data, the app logic and its requirements.

> 
> Can ozone handle this scale?  Are there any projects that
> have used ozone for something on that scale?

No, I'm not aware of a real world app that handles that much objects with ozone.

> 
> They have stated a prefernce for haiving it built using an
> Oracle back-end, but I would rather use a native OODBMS 
> instead of writing object to relational mapping code 
> or using EJB.
> 
> Since it is going to be very hard to convince them to 
> try a new technology, I really need to get some material 
> together to convince them that a system built on a OODBMS 
> is more stable, scalable, and maintainable than one built 
> on an RDBMS and that Ozone can handle what they want.
> 
> If you know of any resources on this, please let me
> know.  If I can do this project on Ozone, it will
> definitely be some high-profile exposure!

Well, Neil, the only way to find out if ozone meets your needs and to finally
convince them to use ozone is a working prototype of your app. Without GUI,
error handling, fancy features - just the pure data structures and the most
important operations. This isn't a big effort and helps you to get a good
feeling when you try to convince them because you doesn't need to trust me
or anyone else but you will see it working yourself. I'm willing to help you
with your prototype, please contact me in private.


Falko
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