Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Project idea: Open source performance tuning software

My idea has these features:

  • Use STATSPACK queries to gather and review statisitcs.

  • Store results locally for quicker review.

  • Realtime performance stats gathering.

  • More to come...



This project would be done in .NET with possible porting to MONO later on. This would mean that it would need to be limited in what it uses in the way of Microsoft based assemblies. This should be exciting plus free! Just gotta check with Oracle about the STATSPACK queries. But in thinking, this tool would rely on STATSPACK to be installed. So using the queries form the report shouldn't be a problem. Plus, being OSS there shouldn't be a licensing issue.

Next question, what should I use for a local data store? DB4O is an OSS non-relational database used by numerous companies, but will it work for this application? Are there other options similar to Access or DB4O?

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