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Panorama is a powerful RAM based database for storing, organizing and analyzing information. Since 1988 Panorama has been in use all over the world for everything from custom accounting to medical research, from church directories to college track meets. Panorama's unique RAM based technology makes it the fastest and most flexible database on the market.
When writing Panorama, ProVUE engineers decided to rethink the fundamental disk based database technology that had been in use since the 1960's. Other database programs rely on your computer's relatively slow hard drive instead of the nanosecond access time RAM chips on your motherboard. That means these programs can't take full advantage of the tremendous increases in processor speed and RAM capacity over the past decades.
Panorama uses a completely different RAM based approach. The slow hard drive is used only for saving. All searching, sorting and data manipulation is done directly in the computer's high speed RAM. The result is pure blazing speed -- you'll think your data has broken the sound barrier! Even better, Panorama's highly efficient storage algorithims can pack over 100,000 records in less than 10 megabytes. Click here for more details and to see screencasts (movies) of Panorama in action.
- RAM based for super fast searching, sorting and data manipulation.
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Memory Issues and foreign text 
- Version: 5.5.1, 2/7/2009 09:56AM PST
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rpm3--2008
Panorama RAM requirements/Foreign language issues - Version: 5.5.1, 2/5/2009 04:18AM PST
rpm3--2008
Problem one: This is RAM-based software, so for a larger database you had best have a *lot* of RAM. Panorama, despite boosting the memory usage to max 999MB, pukes out "not enough memory" and "i/o error" messages when trying to import text or even doing simple "find/replace all" commands. OK, I have been trying this with a Mac G4 with 1,25GB RAM, perhaps if i try it on a G5 with 8GB RAM it will not be an issue.
Filemaker, however slow it is, does function however as long as Autosave is on while doing 8 hours of "find/replace all." Filemaker's text import, despite reports to the contrary, is nearly as fast as Panorama's, but *only* if all the indexing is turned off.
Problem two: unlike Filemaker, no options for alphabetizing foreign, in this case German, characters. Treats ä, ö and ü like a, o, and u rather than treating it the same, according to German text standards, as ae, oe, and ue. I presume the same limitations apply to anybody else using a foreign language with different text characters, something which must limit Panorama users to English-speaking countries.
I have been waiting three days for a response from Provue's tech support on the foreign language issue, and despite the site claiming there were only 23 questions ahead of mine, have not yet received and answer. So still up in the air about the company's customer support.
Been a big fan since I found it in the 80's... - Version: 5.5.1, 8/2/2008 12:18PM PST
martimer
" the total memory available to Panorama is no more than 1.1 GB.
At WWDC I verified that this was true even on a machine with 8 GB of memory. I set up Panorama's powerpc.ini file to request 3 GB of memory, but the operating system would only give Panorama 1.1 GB. I was able to get some input on this from an Apple engineer at the conference. Currently Panorama is requesting the memory from Apple's Carbon interface. Apparently if Panorama requests the memory directly from UNIX we should be able to get up to about 2.5 GB. So we'll be looking into doing that in a future release. This may have to wait until Panorama is moved to XCode —— if so it won't happen for a while."
So even with more RAM in a machine, the allocation for Panorama memory is limited to 1.1GB. So don't expect Panorama to be able to handle a 1.6 GB file, as I tried to do.
Their customer support did get back with me on the foreign language issue, so thumbs up on that. Though they are a bit misinformed about alphabetizing resources, telling me that no resource will treat dual vowels like oe the same as ö. Not true, every program with German language options does exactly that. Still they helpfully pointed out that it is possible to change the sorting resources in Panorama, so I will look into it.
Or will at the point they move to Xcode and up the memory allocation so I can use the software. Until then I will having a cup of coffee while Filemaker plugs away, slowly but surely.
Cheers, rpm