LMBlog :: Domino R8 Database improvements (to infinity and beyond!)

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Many new R8 features mentioned, and what is due to come in R.next (yep, R.next is back now that R8 is announced)

R8 Domino Database features

Major focus on Messaging with many Quality of service improvements
-More DDM events posted

Uptime goal of 99.999% in R8 (as seen by users)

Resource reduction
- Streaming CLuster replication
- Dedicated R8 cluster mate stream
- No remote NSF calls, no round robin loop
- 50% CPU savings, double speed
- Model for future server comms

reduce I/O operations and amount of data
- 25% I/O reduction in R8
- New ODS
- Folder processing optimization
- Design document compression
- 50% disk space reduction over R7 templates
- On Demand Collations
- View column property
- Creatioon on first use
- Discards per view interval
- Transaction log optimization

reduce disk space used
reduce cPU load

Domino with DB/2
R8 GA Release
-Integrated serviceability
-Deployment - Domino/DB2 for Mail
-3rd party reporting
App Dev
-DB2>>Notes user mapping eliminated for Query Views
-Special fields in DB2 Access views
-Full enablement to exploit DB2 tools & services

Enhanced User Activities
- Reads, Adds, Updates, Deletes listed

Performance
Feature exploration
Unification
App enhancement

Domino Next

More Quality of Service improvements
Improved diagnostics
Hot Sport Coherency Checking
Snapshot backups
Replication metadata logging

Resource reduction
- Storage management
- Shared common store - high performance % availability
- Single copy template
- improved admin & deployment
- Scalability / Performance
- I/O reductions - another 50% over R8
- NSF/NIF server task tuning
- Improve Transaction log performance
- NIF optimizing
- Leverage 64 bit memory
-caching
-replication & view/folder updating

Domino/DB2
-management unification
-admin, problem management & resolution

- NSF search more granular
- DB2 9.5+ feature leverage
- Performance, performance, performance!