Re: Re - new datablade announced for informix

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:2jrvd8F14kit8U1@uni-berlin.de... > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message > news:cbaefd$1rc$1@news.xmission.com... > > Jean Sagi said: > > > > > > Ummm... I read > > > http://www.coppereye.com/coppereye_datablade.htm > > > and it looks very interesting, indeed. > > > > > > I think this could be done only thanks to the datablade architecture of > > > Informix... > > > > > > This could be done with DB2? > > > > > > Or Oracle/Sql-Server? ... ;) > > > > As far as I know, they punt their technology as an alternative to RDBMSs, > > but yes, I think this is a classic example of how easy it can be to extend > > IDS. > > As I understand it, exactly. To achieve the same in DB2 or Oracle would > require a code re-write, to have the index-functionality code written into > the "engine" software. The datablade functionality of Informix obviates the > need for this. > > I've deliberatly cross-posted in case I'm talking crap, to give experts in > the other DBMSs the chance to correct me. Somthing tells me I will regret > it though ...! I hope not... Oracle provides a framework for new indextypes (which is what this sounds like) - in theory it is available to the likes of coppereye, though in practice it seems mostly to be used by Oracle internal developers - for intermedia for example. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com