Re: system setup survey

From: Art S. Kagel <kagel_at_bloomberg.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:33:26 -0400
Message-ID: <37936F76.47E4985B@bloomberg.net>

Garrett Casey wrote:
>
> I recently had lunch with two gentlemen who are planning on developing
> a web site that serves information from a static database containing
> 200,000,000+ records. They asked what type of system I would
> recommend. I blurted out:
>
> FreeBSD
> mod_perl Apache
> mySQL (except I don't know how it would scale to 200,000,000+
> records).
>
> They have been leaning towards using a Microsoft server with SQL7.0.
>
> I am curious about what system you would suggest for this situation
> and why. The system should be able to withstand a decent amount of
> traffic (2,000,000+ requests a day???). The static database will
> consist of 200,000,000 records (except I don't know the size of each
> record and how many tables).

Informix.

Art S. Kagel Received on Mon Jul 19 1999 - 13:33:26 CDT