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hamsterdb: release 1.0.9

May 18th, 2009

This release fixes a minor bug in ham_cursor_move; if the second parameter (”record”) is NULL and compression is enabled, hamsterdb crashes. Also, the unittest-dependency to cppunit was removed.
Sources, CHANGELOG and precompiled win32 libraries are available for download.

chris Coding, Databases, Libraries, hamsterdb

Why cheap hard disks are slower than expensive disks

April 30th, 2009

Curt Monash is a database analyst. He usually blogs about enterprise databases and not the embedded kind. Nevertheless his posts are really interesting, therefore i added him to my blogroll.

This post is about harddisks and why cheap (SATA) harddisks are much slower than expensive ones (Fibre channel/SAS).

chris Databases