[bind10-dev] Blog comment from BDB developer

[Danny Mayer]

On 7/12/2010 10:45 PM, zhanglikun wrote:
> Danny wrote:
>> you have no idea how bad that would be from a DB performance point of view. You *really* don't want to do this.
> 
>> I've never heard of something like that in Java and I do quite a lot of Java programming with databases these days. I doubt that this is true.
>> Databases either find the records requested or not. There's no in between. You are better off getting the resultset and processing the records for what you 
>> need.
> 
> BDB have one native flag ' DB_SET_RANGE ' supporting to get records in between. see the following discussions.
> 
>> Likun,

Yes I read that. The implications of this is that you are going to be
limiting bind10 to only use BDB since no other DB supports it. That's
okay if you are going to be making that as a final decision, but then
that needs to be explicitly stated.

Danny