Re: Does anyone have serious databases on NT?

From: Ken North <ken_north_at_nospam.compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:45:11 -0700
Message-ID: <7p4q9n$p6h$2@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com>

>boundary, in _practice_, where shops are using NT, versus going to
>Unix when the boundary is exceeded. The number seems theoretical, but
>it is still an indicator of what shops are actually doing, in
>comparison to what the marketing fluff advertises.

The boundary is more a question of industry practice than some formula based on empirical data. Here are some more data points:

• The NT database at www.terraserver.com is in the terabyte range
• The NASDAQ site (www.nasdaq.com) took 20-million page hits on the heaviest day of stock trading (October '97). It was running NT, Dell servers, and MSSQL databases.

One other point to consider -- if you look at the annual very large database (VLDB) survey, you see neither Unix nor NT are used for the largest databases:

"Distributed Transactions, SQL, and Application Servers" (Web Techniques, Feb. 1999)
http://www.webtechniques.com/features/1999/02/data/data.shtml

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