Re: system setup survey

From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler_at_peppler.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:43:48 -0700
Message-ID: <37948B24.766B7C@peppler.org>

"Art S. Kagel" wrote:
>
> 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.

To even things out:

Sybase.

Michael :-)
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Sybase on Linux mailing list: ase-linux-list_at_isug.com Received on Tue Jul 20 1999 - 09:43:48 CDT