Correspondent from New York
AidAim Master Database System
Are you tired of Ella's in-your-face obnoxious newsgroup posting that "they are they best, they are fastest?"
The first post is from a pseudonym "Roman à clef" on Delphi32.com. It claimed that Accuracer is the most fastest Delphi database. it caused a stir six years ago (2005) ago. The person claimed that AidAim is the "fastest database". You can read the newsgroup postings about it.
(The delphi32.com site, owned by Leo Singh, has not been maintained for almost three years (update info from Archive.org) It claims "2.5 millions of visitors per month", "millions of downloads" but every page redirects to a 404 page. The owners of Delphi 32.com are very interested in advertising on the Delphi32.com site!)
There is also a false and misleading posting in DelphiPages (source) on their product claiming they are faster, better.
Fast, How Fast?
On their website, they provide faux-pas information (source) that their database solution is the "fastest". They compare their own database system (EasyTable) and against three other poor-quality database systems (KeyDB, TinyDB, TurboDB -- their owners have all gone out of business).
Consider the fact that EasyTable sources are part of Accuracer database system, one wonders what they are talking about. (Source code reference: ACRConst.pas)
Including a disclaimer on their site:
"EasyTable is a single-user database. If you need multi-user access, please, use another our database product, Accuracer Database System, instead. If you have more than 10,000 records, please, use Accuracer as it has the great performance on very large data. Accuracer is much more perfect product. We highly recommend to use it in any business applications."
So which is faster? If you are storing less than 10,000 records, they ask you to use Accuracer database system instead. Thus, if you "believe" the claim they are faster, their benchmarks for EasyTable prove otherwise.
AidAim business model
Many years ago, AidAim split with ComponentAids ComponentAce. ComponentAce bringing half their product portfolio along with them. AidAim used to sell ZipForge, CompressionMaster and EasyCompression suites.
One wonders if Ella Perelman is a false identity since there is an unusual posting from Leo Martin under her name (source). Back to the review.
AidAim Customer Relationship Management System
From a highly confidential source, AidAim have approximately 4,500 customers, including a few pirates.
Pirates:
- Mehdi Keramati (delphi@novinmedia.com) who licensed EasyTable v.3.05, FastReports, DBISAM, LakeOfSoft Voice Communicator, Scalabium components and tricked many other component vendors.
- Ming Lung (mlstu@ms2.hinet.net) 2F., No.6, Lane 8, Sec. 2, Jinan Rd., Jhongjheng District, who licensed EasyTable Pro
The break-down is as follows:
2001 - total of 150 customers (and 15 fraud orders)
2002 - total of 430 customers
2003 - total of 600 customers
2004 - total of 600 customers
2005 - total of 370 customers
2006 - total of 310 customers
2007 - total of 400 customers
2008 - total of 500 customers
2009 - total of 450 customers
2010 - total of 450 customers
2011 - Not Available
Total: 4,200 around end of 2010.
Approx. $450,000 was collected over a decade, 40% from ShareIT, 40% from SWREG, 20% from Pliumus
Approx. $35,000 was paid as fees.
On an average year, they made $45,000 per year. The worst years were 2005, 2006.
To be continued in part II.
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3 comments:
From the source the tests were ran with: "CPU Intel Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz, MB ASUS P4S8X, 512 Mb DDR400 RAM, HDD Western Digital 80 GB IDE, OS Microsoft Windows XP SP1". What business has that old hardware for production? Which Senior IT or DBA head needs to roll for allowing sunsetted software in the enterprise? Do the test again with current hardware against current software.
Hi Ben,
>> From our NY correspondent:
I don't know. It seems foolish to advertise they are the fastest, best when using outdated hardware.
Eventually you get the idea they are making all sorts of wild claims and false or misleading statements.
If their statements were true, this blog will validate and check their claims.
If the suffer from the fact they claim to be fastest, best, they need to show some humility instead.
I am not sure about TurboDB but they have been very early with a just managed .net DB and copy deployment and an optimized one for .net.
You maybe remember back the time.
The comparison you mentioned (not yours, you did not compare Turbo DB) is unfair. I doubt they are out of business, because I still receive update emails.
btw. The TurboDB guys provide a diagramming framework on .net
http://code.google.com/p/nshape/
For table sizes of 10k records ... I have found one day a simple but useful approach built on top of just CSV. The component was in the position to create indices, sort and filter.
Under UNIX you do this via the shell and honestly most of the local desktop database for applications blah, blah, blah is more a result of the Windows weakness on the file system and utilities. TCL/TK and shell does very much the same.
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