How fast is Objectivity/DB?
There are many ways of measuring the speed of a database. Unfortunately, almost all of them are only suitable for relational databases. The industry benchmarks on object databases are over ten years old. Objectivity/DB can create new objects and store them on disk at almost the maximum rate that the processor-network-disk configuration can support. In one recent benchmark Objectivity/DB ingested and stored objects at the rate of 32 Terabytes per day. It randomly or sequentially reads data at similar speeds. If a client thread can reuse data that has already been cached in memory then there is no need to read the data from disk (or across a network) in subsequent transactions. Objectivity/DB can be configured with small client caches for streaming data, or with large client caches for repetitive use of large amounts of data. In the latter case, Objectivity/DB effectively becomes an in-memory database.
