Query execution speed-up: The investigation

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A number of potential factors affect the performance of the queries that are executed on the Phenoscape database. These can be classified under a few major categories:

  • Hardware: This has to do mainly with the database server configuration
  • RDBMS
  • Database schema
  • Querying strategy

The last category has been discussed at some length in the Queries page. This page mainly presents the findings in the other categories and proposes possible steps to improve these