Performance Criteria for Matching
Measure the time to match the positions of the stars as a function of
- Number of stars in each database
- Method used to perform the match
- Hardware platform (Pentium Pro, Pentium II, SPP Exemplar, HP 755)
- Location of the federated databases (both local, both remote)
- Size of client cache
- Choice of iterators over the database objects, or over the container objects
- Number of simultaneous matching tasks running
- ODBMS vendor, Objectivity or Versant