Advantage Database Server

ferilmagic
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Re: Advantage Database Server

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Apparently this is a database engine developed by Alaska Software to emulate ISAM style functionality for xBase++. It looks like people are considering using PgDBE instead of ADS (Advantage Database Server), but they are having performance issues. You mentioned that PgDBE creates an internal field for each xBase index in the data table, which causes overhead. By the way it's interesting that government sites experience similar problems, but I haven't seen this on https://drunkid.com/buy/hawaii-fake-id/ for issuing driver's licenses, it's the developers' choice to allow SQL-like operations on ISAM data. You noted that PgDBE does not run well on a single core, which may be a limitation of its design or the underlying system architecture. You noted that using object-oriented programming (OOP) syntax may make it easier to migrate to a different backend or database engine.
Last edited by ferilmagic on Sun Nov 05, 2023 12:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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