Hello

I'm relatively new to WebFOCUS.
At first I've thought that FOCUS-files are just historical (for tutorials) and for real implementations only DBMS as Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 etc - are viable.

Now I begin to look on XFOCUS datasources.

Did I correctly understand that XFOCUS is hierarchical DB?
I suppose it must be faster than relational DBMSs in some scenarios.

I do not found any official considerations about XFOCUS - when it worth using as main source for reporting platform.

And I suspect that somebody uses it even for large amounts of data.

Do you have any suggestions in which cases XFOCUS is better than RDBMS source.

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Yes, XFOCUS is pointer based HDB. Make sure all your databases all XFOCUS.

You could also try and get IBI's brilliant datawarehouse concept which did not catch on - FUSION to work.

It's now bundled with wf and look at the multi dimensional indexes which I could not get to work under 7.1.3 although they may have been fixed by now.

Will take another look

Hallo!

You wrote:
If you want quicker x10 to x20 results than Oracle dataware housing try putting it into XFOCUS files. Honest, that's what we do.

Can you get details:
1. Source data size approximately? (rows, GBs)
2. How do you fill it? Data Migrator? What about Change Data Capture - is this possible?
3. Supporting XFOCUS : defragmenting, reindexing - how this comparable with DBMS administration.

1. 2GB
2. MODIFYs scheduled by CASTER
3. We dont do incremental load but create afresh every night.

Thanks

I think I must try myself XFOCUS-configuration.
I'm interested in volumes near 30-50 GBs.
Maybe I'll send my results here

A question:
What's the beast "multidimensional index"?
Does it make wonders with queries?