Re: Choosing a right database

Sorry you don't like Sybase, but you really should consider it. Given the # of users you are going to have, you are likely going to consider replication, if you haven't already.

Sybase's replication is a LOT better than Oracle's, for many reasons which I don't want to take the time to go into. I am not familiar with Informix or Taradata...

Alla Gribov wrote in message <37C004E0.24C40572_at_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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>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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