Today I just happen to read May 2008 edition of Dr.Dobb’s Journal printed edition and the article “Kernel-mode Databases” written by Andrel and Alexander from McObject really excited me.
The basic principle of any database engine is its performance and scalability and success of any database in most part relays on these two concepts. To achieve this, operating system kernel plays a major role in the form of …
- resource allocation
- thread scheduling
- low-level hardware access
- network
- security
So, looks like eXtremeDB try to overcome from this by releasing kernel-mode database. The kernel mode package actually overrides most of the kernel access calls that database engine expects by replacing with optimized …
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