[elephant-devel] Querying Advice

[Daniel Salama]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Ian Eslick wrote:
> I think a macro system makes sense when we find we want to have a  
> query
> syntax (a simpler and more elegant version of what SQL tries to do)  
> that
> concisely expresses the class of operations we want to perform and
> behind which we need to put a query sequencer or compiler to optimize
> retrieval.

That's where I'm aiming at

>
> I do think that Pierre is right that we need to list a set of  
> queries we
> want to perform and not worry about performance up front.  We can  
> worry
> about sequencing, etc when we have examples of slow queries that start
> to rise to the level of user perception.  Let's build up this
> infrastructure incrementally so we can figure out what the problems  
> are
> at low cost.

Agree 100%

>
> Also, I'm going to promote a faster serializer shortly that should  
> speed
> up both SQL and BDB backends which should take some modest constant
> factors off of query runtime from disk (vs. DCM).
>
> Cheers,
> Ian

That would be splendid

Thanks,
Daniel