The comparison of delete performance in a local or networked database shows an obvious result: local mode is faster as it does not include network communication delays:
The approximate results on a test computer:
Delete test: Client/Server environment
Store 30000 objects: 1710ms
Delete 10 of 10000 objects [depth 3] locally:
Deleted 10 objects in: 1 ms.
Store 30000 objects: 2721ms
Delete 10 of 10000 objects [depth 3] remotely:
Deleted 10 objects in: 31 ms.
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