Re: Embedding Postgres in Java Application

I have tested most of the other options Hypersonic, Firebird, Daffodil
and Postgres is much faster with large data sets and a lot better on
memory usage. I have not tried Cloudscape as that was only very recently
released under a license that would allow me to embed it. The query
times with Postgres are in the 1-5sec range comparing to 30sec plus on
the others. Hypersonic can be quick but only with the entire table in
memory, gets nasty with outer joins.

Are there are any I haven't tried and should be looking at?

I am using Hibernate as a middle layer so porting should not be an issue.

Thanks

Jasper

Kris Jurka wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Jasper Potts wrote:
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>>Is there a way of creating a JDBC connection to the db not over a
>>network socket?
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>No.  Java does not have support for unix sockets.
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>>The other way is going to be to start/stop the database from Java by
>>calling "pg_ctl start/stop". But that issues with this because of the
>>windows restrictions that postgres can't be run as a user with admin
>>privileges. Any Ideas?
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>Even if Java did support unix sockets you would still have to start the
>server running.  PostgreSQL is not designed to be an embedded database
>(especially not by Java).  This doesn't seem like a great idea, perhaps
>one of the Java databases would be more appropriate for this task?
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>Kris Jurka
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