September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
13h 10m
English
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Databases
Databases all have particular features that allow performance optimizations. Usually, the database documentation includes a section on optimizing performance, and that is the place to start.
Here are some hints applicable to many databases:
Object databases are usually faster than relational databases for applications with strongly object-oriented designs, especially when navigating object networks[86] is a significant part of the application.
Relational databases are generally faster than object databases when dealing with large amounts of basic data types, e.g., for objects whose object types are easily mapped into relational tables.
Application partitioning is important for database access. Reducing the amount of data being transferred over the network is often the key to good performance with databases.
Application partitioning applies to accessing relational databases. Most relational-database products have the ability to execute server-side code in the form of stored procedures. Stored procedures are precompiled SQL code that can be executed by the database server. Some relational-database products can now run Java on the server too (e.g., Oracle).
Database queries are often faster if they are statically defined queries, i.e., queries that are defined and precompiled. For relational databases, these take the form of prepared statements that can usually accept parameters. Many object databases also support statically defined queries that can navigate object networks ...
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