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Re: Which RDMS is best?

From: Darin McBride <dmcbride_at_nospam.tower.to.org>
Date: 2000/01/27
Message-ID: <qzpoevqrgbjregbbet.foz08sb.pminews@news.mtag1.on.wave.home.com>#1/1

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:18:57 GMT, Loki wrote:

>My assumptions are that the dataset will grow to no more than 25GB at this
>time, with the current fields (there is a proposal to revamp the system to
>add additional tables storing additional data), but for that 25GB, there
>will be many many records, (the records themselves are quite small, but we
>have alot of them)
>
>Our current setup is happy with 3GB, but as I said, it is anticipated to
>grow to somewhere over 20GB, no more than 25GB

This still sounds like an order of magnitude change in scale - from the GB range to the 10s of GB range. I may be somewhat biased - but DB2 has the scalability to handle the entire range, and it has a pricing structure to match. You can get small systems (single-user databases) to mid-sized (small workgroups) to enterprise-sized to clustered enterprise. If you're on a platform that has all of these options, you can simply install the larger DB2 over the smaller, and keep on workin'! (Stop/start databases may be required - reboot sometimes required on OS/2 and Windows.)

As for your other requirements - ask around in c.db.ibm-db2, or check their website (www.ibm.com/db2, I think). I think it has at least 90% of them, possibly all of them.

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Received on Thu Jan 27 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

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