Choosing a right database

From: Alla Gribov <alla.gribov_at_metatel.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:10:40 -0400
Message-ID: <37C004E0.24C40572@metatel.com>

Hello all;

First of all I am apologizing to all of you if you see this questions posted twice - I am having troubles with sending it.

I need an advice from gurus of database design and development

I am building a database that will have around 1 million users. At any given moment about 5,000 of them are connected to the database. The chosen database should be able to perform around 500 reads/writes per second.

Is there a database that can support such a task and if yes, which one is the best in your opinion?

My first thought was Oracle, but after doing some research on Web, it seems like that a lot of people prefer Informix over Oracle.

Which would you choose (or may be there are some other databases that I am not aware of that would suit better for this project) - no Sybase or MS Sql-Server,
sorry to people who like them???

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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                                 Alla Gribov 
                       alla.gribov_at_metatel.com

The greatest programming project of all took six days. On the seventh day the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the thing ever since. Moral: design before you implement.
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Received on Sun Aug 22 1999 - 09:10:40 CDT