Yep - which really rules a relational database out for the export back end.
You are right that its definitely the tool to generate the master databases
and to handle the exporting. But the query engine should be running faster.
Thats why we have LDAP not SQL for big use information bases for example.
Oh I've got a new toy btw. This assumes you mirror the data some other
way but its now doing over 4000 queries/second via a small udp messaging
agent
Alan