Re: system setup survey

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).
>
> -Garrett Casey
 

Oracle. Why?

1. I'm bias, it is what I use and like.
2. It could easily handle those specs.