wow, gobsmacked....
i've been looking at storing our data (1000's of very small 10,00 records db's) in an open standard, looked at using XML. did this using SAS V8 (www.sas.com). worked fine, but performance sucks. the repreated use of tags across multiple records kills performance.
think of ASN.1 as compiled XML!. first off i say what the data looks like (size not quoted in report, but i guess would be approx the size of 1 record of XML, ie just the tags). then just send the actual data, no tags. because you know the format sending multiple records is a very low overhead.
so.... this is the KEWL part. finally a XML database becomes workable. an XML database should consist of a header (the XML tags) then binary data records encoded using ASN.1.
can i have it now please!!!!!
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wow, gobsmacked.... i've been looking at storing our data (1000's of very small 10,00 records db's) in an open standard, looked at using XML. did this using SAS V8 (www.sas.com). worked fine, but performance sucks. the repreated use of tags across multiple records kills performance. think of ASN.1 as compiled XML!. first off i say what the data looks like (size not quoted in report, but i guess would be approx the size of 1 record of XML, ie just the tags). then just send the actual data, no tags. because you know the format sending multiple records is a very low overhead. so.... this is the KEWL part. finally a XML database becomes workable. an XML database should consist of a header (the XML tags) then binary data records encoded using ASN.1. can i have it now please!!!!!