Re: Open Source Database Questions

From: Gints Plivna <gints.plivna_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:12:23 +0300
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Not a direct answer but - I hope you have considered Oracle Standard Edition (SE) and SE One. They haven't restriction on CPU cores, so for example for SE you can get 4 CPUs with 24 cores or whatever maximum is core number for CPU nowadays. As well as there are term licenses for 1-5 years with just fraction of full license cost. Quite useful for test systems.
And speaking about TPCC using Oracle SE with literally thousand of disks :) one can get quite impressive results: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=109012001

I expect that for many systems it would be cheaper to pay just for Oracle SE and keep existing code than rewrite code for another DBMS with full test.

Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu

2009/6/9 Peter Barnett <regdba_at_yahoo.com>:
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> Because of the current economy we are being encouraged to consider open source databases.
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> One of the vendors has referenced a JTPCC benchmark which is an open source Java version of TPCC.  Has anyone heard of JTPCC?  Is it in any way truly comparable to TPCC?  Keep in mind that I am skeptical of TPCC so this may be a loaded question.
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> Is anyone currently using open source databases in production?  Our typical database is approximately 200G but the range is 50G to 3.5T.  One of our typical databases has approximately 200 distinct users at any one time.  Any thoughts on a sweet spot for open source databases?
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> This does all come down to money!  I am pretty sure that we will have an open source database inhouse by year end.  The major question is how best to use it.
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> Thanks,
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> Pete Barnett
> Database Technologies Lead
> Regence
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