Wolfgang Emmerich and Wilhelm Schäfer
University of Dortmund,
Dept. of Computer Science,
44221 Dortmund,
Germany
Abstract:
Non-standard database systems become available now, even as commercial
products. They overcome a lot of deficiencies of relational systems w.r.t.
their use in engineering applications like computer-aided design or software
engineering. Their rather sophisticated functionality especially concerning
the manipulation of complex objects makes them highly attractive for
engineering applications. If being used as the central database of a rather
complex application they could however still become a bottleneck w.r.t.
performance. This paper presents a new way how to define a special purpose
benchmark which enables to select the fastest database system for a
particular software engineering application. It is argued that existing
benchmarks are not appropriate to support such a selection, because they
neglect important application specific characteristics which significantly
influence the database performance.
Wolfgang Emmerich
Updated on: 5/2/96
