Tomas,
Thanks for your interests in Map Suite components and questions.
I have not done the performance comparison between ShapeFileFeatureSource and MsSql2008FeatureSource yet, while from my point of view, I can feel the performance loading from shape file should be better than from the Sql2008 ones if everything is exactly the same.
Please make sure following things before jumping into the performance enhancement:
1)All the shape files are indexed correctly.
2)All the ZoomLevels are designed decently. For example, we can but it would be very slow and unusable if we show all the data from ZoomLevel01 ~ ZoomLevel20.
3)All the Styles are set correctly, typically speaking , the more advanced the style is , the more time it will take.
Any more questions just feel free to let me know.
Thanks.
Yale