[nycphp-talk] ORM vs SQL: the ultimate showdown
tedd
tedd at sperling.com
Mon Sep 17 09:48:49 EDT 2007
At 8:02 PM -0400 9/16/07, Mark Armendariz wrote:
>Rob Marscher wrote:
>>On Sep 15, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Mark Armendariz wrote:
>>>Anyways, that's my take on SQL and ORM. Both - with an easily
>>>manipulated and portable meta language.
>>Sounds pretty cool. Ever thought of analyzing the queries used
>>within an application and automatically generate (or suggest)
>>indexes? Seems like your system might have self-analyzing
>>capabilities to be able to do that.
>Working towards that as well. Currently has some basic profiling
>capabilities for finding the real nasty queries (reminiscent to
>adodb's). For the most part the multi-table queries tend to be
>pretty tight as long as the indexes are already set up. I've been
>considering what it would take to parse an explain and make
>suggestions for some time.
>
>The whole idea is something of a self-generating dao (or orm, i get
>the concepts and then I get them mixed up) that quietly caches
>itself out of existence over time, but sticks around for general
>maintenance when needed. I'm glad to see some interest. Good
>motivation to get this thing out in the world soon.
>
>Mark
In regard to self-analyzing, it would be nice to have the option to
select what types of search methodologies the dB uses, such as splay.
Cheers,
tedd
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